Colby Sharp @colbysharp.bsky.social ⭐️driven by gratitude⭐️Husband 👫 Dad 👦👧👧👦👦 Teacher 👔 Reader 📚 Runner 🏃 Writer ✏️ Nerd 🤓 VOTE! #NerdyBookClub | views expressed are mine
Nina Berry @ninaberry.bsky.social Tiger in human guise. I write books about clever girls. Movie maven. Prone to wander. She/her. https://bio.site/ninaberry
celine @cozylittle.house design at leaflet.pub!
Reesa Guerra @reesaguerra.bsky.social 🌩️ Middle Grade Horror Fantasy writer 🌩️
Member of #SAGAFTRA
Celiac/Gluten-Free
I 👁️🗨️👻
Unless I'm familiar with you or you're really cool, please no DM's.
Laurie Cheung @laurieacheung.bsky.social Girl with brain half full.
Emily Keyes @esckeyes.bsky.social Founder of the Keyes Agency, LLC. Bookish. Short. Invisible Disability. Brooklyn, NY. She/her
BrianMcLachlan @brianmcl.com Website: http://brianmcl.com
COMPLETE THE QUEST: https://bitly.cx/aCyq
Comic Tutorial Videos: http://bit.ly/3EvX8CX
shop: http://brianmcl.threadless.com
Author of Spruce Street Squad in Owl Magazine
he/him demi/ace
#KidLitArt #TTRPG
Sondra Zalewski @sondrazalewski.bsky.social Children’s book writer musing about the craft, and posting #PBreview, while waiting for manuscript feedback.
https://sondrazalewski.com/
dp_meandering @djbp.bsky.social Sometimes Filker, Costumer, re-enactor. more commonly found reading and occasionally providing tech support for dinosaurs
Crystal Jayme (Scotty) Comic Artist @scottycomics.bsky.social Crystal Jayme (Scotty) 🌵 Freelance Comic Artist 🌵
Harper Alley's "I Witnessed"
Viz's "The Death God" & "Do You Like Fruit?"
🔗Website: https://scottycomicshub.carrd.co/
📧Contact: scottystudios@gmail.com
Asa S. @asa-s.bsky.social 
Bailey @hideonshell.bsky.social - C Daisy @colorful-empath.bsky.social Artist Momma
John Moore - Author @wizwizards.bsky.social Childrens’s Magical Fantasy Story Books. Books with built in educational elements. A ten book series to entertain and educate as your children read the books (without them actually knowing!)
Lele Saa @lelesaa.com (she/her)
Illustrator | Writer | Designer | H(ai)ter
📍Cambridge, UK.
Inspired by joy, curiosity & creativity.
Represented by Sophie Sheumaker at BookEnds Literary Agency.
© Lele Saa 2023-26
www.lelesaa.com
Alan D Thomas @alanthomasd.bsky.social A musician with a passion for real estate building dreams you can live in and songs you can feel.
Tim Blundell | Aspiring MG Writer @ahedgehogscribbles.bsky.social
Middle grade writer.
Up to my armpits in drafts.
Sleepiest when fed.
Happiest when slept.
@gulsher95.bsky.social @gulsher95.bsky.social 
Allison Hackworth @allisonhackworth.bsky.social Neurodiverse mom, wife, and nurse who absolutely loves creating colorful, spooky picture books with her husband! 📚📖✏️🎨🖌️👻💀🧟🧛🏼🦇🎃♥️🧡💛💚💙💜
Tanya Gold | Editor & Translator 💕📚 (they/iel) @tanyagold.bsky.social 📚 Book Editor, Fr→En Lit Translator, Educator
🍽📖 Working on/devouring speculative fiction, horror, memoir, contemporary realism, IF, comics
⭐ Teaching and coaching editors and writers
📘 Faculty @ Emerson's MFA in Popular Fiction
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️♿🪫🇨🇭
🚫AI
www.TanyaGold.com
Santi Casares @santiagocasares.bsky.social Latinx Kidlit author/illustrator
www.santiagocasares.com
A Gross Lady @bombhand.myatproto.social I’m not smart but I try to be kind.
Tedious AuDHD elder millennial.
She/her 🇨🇦
Nick Duke @nickdukemedia.bsky.social Artist and designer — for hire!
📍 Nyack, NY
NickDukeMedia.com
Instagram.com/NickDukeMedia
Darcy Marks @darcymarks.bsky.social Author of GROUNDED FOR ALL ETERNITY & THE AFTERLIFE OF THE PARTY. Fangirl of so many things.
www.DarcyMarks.com
Order Grounded: https://bit.ly/45wwWG3
Order Afterlife: https://bit.ly/44t4MKB
IG: https://www.instagram.com/darcy.marks/
Ilona @ilonakidscribe.bsky.social Kidlit writer, refugee daughter, amateur photo-snapper, member of co-housing eco-community. Co-author, CAT TAKES QUEEN (middle grade novel about a chess-playing cat) coming Oct. 2026 from Feiwel & Friends. Rep'd by Kristen Terrette, Martin Literary Mgmnt.
Gina Perry @ginaperry.bsky.social Picture Book Author Illustrator, THE KING OF BOOKS Feiwel & Friends, SNOW DAY WITH DADDY '28 Christy Ottaviano Books / Creator of #KidLitArtPostcard / Rep’d by Sean McCarthy www.ginaperry.com
Sarah Wheeler @sarahsart.bsky.social Artist • Illustrator
Member of SCBWI
Hey Crystal Smith Illustrates @crystalsmithart.bsky.social West Coast Canada illustrator & writer🤖🦕🛼
Short, left-handed, adhd, lighthouse keeper’s daughter. Nature & neon
Rep'd by @jemiscoe.bsky.social -Starling Literary
@starlingliterary.bsky.social
PBs: MAYBE A WHALE | MOTHER ASPEN
www.heycrystalsmith.com
Becky Hohensee @bhohensee.bsky.social #PB Writer, former social worker, literacy advocate & cake enthusiast
#SCBWI
Elizabeth Metz @thefinestmuffins.bsky.social Illustrator, writer, nonprofit staffer, Reds fan, bookworm, pedestrian, houseplant and voting rights enthusiast. She/her. What, people who like baseball can't like books?
📍Cincinnati, OH
https://www.elizabeth-metz.com
Shawna @mitsubishe.bsky.social I make art & eat sandwiches. I have many cats and a dog. Sometimes I'm funny. She/Her.
Just my posts: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sdkxyw2r7xlx5kjhsolgagv6/feed/aaabcyy5pktho
Pfp: me doing a mirror selfie
Banner: dusky west OK sky full of bats
Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social Science writer/editor, bylines at CNN, Live Science, SciAm. Previously at Scholastic and the American Museum of Natural History. WGAE member. She/her.
Author of Rise of the Zombie Bugs https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/53677/rise-zombie-bugs
Madeleine Mu 🇨🇦🏳️⚧️ @madeleinejessa.bsky.social Scribe, scribbler, musician, crossword enthusiast
Xennial trans woman living on Treaty Six territory
Dramatic subtlety of Groucho paired with the comic timing of Karl.
Working on a debut MG graphic novel.
(she/they)
Tiff Bartel @tiffbartel.com Viet-Canadian writer, multidisciplinary artist, general goblin on Treaty 1 territory. Queer, neurodivergent, she/they. SCBWI. https://tiffbartel.com
Rep: Katie Blagden @ The Ampersand Agency
Jen @libroloverjen.bsky.social Book and coffee lover ☕️, Owned by a sassy cat 🐈, Libraries bring me joy 📚
Libby Wilson @libbywilsonwriter.bsky.social Children’s nonfiction author. Loves kindness, books, libraries, flowers, birds, dogs, biking, discovering nature
www.libbywilsonwrites.com
Melissa Jensen ❤️🇨🇦she/her @mjensen22.bsky.social Lifeafter50travel.net ✈️❤️🍁
#knowledgehook Ambassador #travel #learn #repeat
https://linktr.ee/mjensenlinks?fbclid=PAAaYBU5PTvha0GVMQPtrGvSIO8SCBZWUyAYKArtKaRtYXQd4GZX6pBCOhwqw
Zach Daniek @zachdaniek.bsky.social Hi! My name is Zach and I am an illustrator with a focus on children’s publishing.
https://www.zachdaniek.com
Mike Exinger IS Buxton Manning! @mikeexinger.bsky.social Retired, loudmouth, progressive, Oregonian (born elsewhere, don't judge me).
💙📚 Author of adult novels, YA novels, and five gambling how-to books.
See it all: www.BuxtonManning.com
No DMs
@dori-king.bsky.social @dori-king.bsky.social Children’s picture book writer, yogi, meditator, and community volunteer.
Yan Jiang @garlicbunnyy.bsky.social Kidlit illustrator
Looking for an agent
RISD26’ 🇨🇦🇨🇳
www.jiangyan.myportfolio.com
Ward Jenkins @wardjenkins.bsky.social Storyboard Artist (MLP:FIM, Ada Twist, Camp Snoopy) & Children’s Book Illustrator. SPACE CASE: The Graphic Novel by Stuart Gibbs out now!
[he/him] Absolutely NO AI.
wardjenkins.com
I share things, too: #wardsmorguefile
Diana Louise @dianalouiseplease.bsky.social (she/her)
I love reading and writing about morally grey women and girls. Equal parts Daria and Quinn with a sprinkle of Mr. O’Neil. #scbwi #inkedvoices
danielle @dkosecki.bsky.social Former journalist now working the content mines in this late-capitalist hellscape. (she/her)
📍Morrison, CO
Virginia McGregor @virginiamcgregor4u.bsky.social Children’s book author, poet, educator, child safety/improve school indoor air quality advocate, support school librarians, require teacher training in asthma ed. #children'sbookauthors #STEAM #earthscience https://diggerdynamo.com 
@mahatheee.bsky.social @mahatheee.bsky.social 
Mike Petrik @mikepetrik.bsky.social Author and illustrator of books for kids!
One Cool Duck 4, Camp Out! Out now from Hippo Park and Astra Pub.
Currently seeking representation.
https://linktr.ee/mikepetrik
🍎 Taylor Twins 🍏 @thirstytwins.satan.social 🦋Taylor Twins TWINS BING TWINS🦋
🌀gemelos Taylor Gemelos siendo gemelas🌀
⓸ 泰勒双胞胎 双胞胎就是双胞胎 ⓸
#instagram #threads #X #tumblr #bluesky https://0-info.my.canva.site/barcode-century-docx
Projjwal @mprojjwal162.bsky.social 🎬Turning children’s books to 3D,2d animated story
📚Helping authors grow beyond the page
✨Short trailer sparks curiosity for your book
See the recent story - https://projjwal.odoo.com/
Andi Kennedy: Art & Words @andria-kennedy.com 🩶🤍💜🖤 • ♾️ • she/her
Flerken Artist Extraordinaire 🐙🐈 • Writer of Words 🦄👾 • PR Director for 🐈⬛🐕
💁♀️ Human Creative
🚫 Absolutely No AI
🌐 https://andria-kennedy.com
✏️ https://antiherokreative.threadless.com
☕️ https://ko-fi.com/antiherokreative
Meg Walters Illustrator @megwaltersdesign.bsky.social SCBWI, Children's book illustrator & author
Nylce Prada Myers @nylcep.bsky.social Dreamer, reader, procrastinator, pilgrim, perpetual student, sometime teacher...lucky human
Callisto⭐️chan @callisto-chan.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Archivist, artist, and historical fashion enthusiast. Fond of, and sometimes posts, sci-fi, space, fantasy, and horror (38, she/they)
Snooty von B @snootyvonb.bsky.social Blue through and through. 💙Human and pet parent. Lover of books and British humour. Politics junkie. Neuroscience geek. Coffee lover ☕️ No DMs please. How hard is this to understand? 😫
#KeepTheVulgariansShortFingersFromTheNuclearCodes
Nobodyatall @criquetgen.bsky.social You post AI, I block--zero tolerance for slop. Kentucky curmudgeon and App-a-LATCH-un. Twitter/Facebook/TikTok refugee.
A. Mulvoy @saymulz.bsky.social ✍🏻 Author/Illustrator
👻 Kidlit Horror/Sci-Fi
⚪️ Seeking representation
✨Current WIP: N 🎄
@ventifact.bsky.social @ventifact.bsky.social 
Stephen Macquignon @smacquignon.bsky.social First Runner-up Tomie dePaola Award. Member of The Illustration Dept and SCBWI.
Represented by Curated Edge Art Agency
https://www.curatededgeartagency.com/
https://macquignon.wixsite.com/stephenmacquignon-
KidsWord & AllKidsBooks – Explore, Read & Share! @allkidsbooks.com 🌟 Join our vibrant community of children's book lovers!
🔗 KidsWrd.com | AllKidsBooks.com
👧 Parents & Teachers: Find the best books for young readers.
✍️ Authors & Illustrators: List & showcase your books to a global audience.
Tina Hoggatt @thoggatt.bsky.social Writing and illustrating stories for young readers. Fond of books, animals, nature, and baseball. Northwestie.
Hamline MFAC, #scbwi #C2C, #12x12
Tymber Dalton aka Lesli Richardson @tymberdalton.bsky.social (She/Her) Snarky, mostly harmless USAT bestselling author of 🌶️📚 HEAs. Geek, ♉️Pagan witch, Oxford comma ♥️er. Fiber artist. 🧶🧵🪡 Gives good brain. Spoonie. Neurospicy. #AuDHD #Romancelandia 🦄🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Ally. Liberal. 🖕ïçẽ
🚫AI - I write my own books.
tymberdalton.com
aNi ilustra @aniilustra.bsky.social 🖌 Children's book author-illustrator #kidlit #kidlitart
✉️ ani.ilustra.asl@gmail.com
🌐 www.aniilustra.com
Pam Vaughan @pamvau.bsky.social Children's book author. NE-SCBWI co-ARA. Director of Whispering Pines Writers’ Retreat. #kidlit #PB #MG #12x12 www.pamvaughanauthor.com
Andrea Ferragotti @ferragottiart.bsky.social Kidlit illustrator, animator, and zinester | ♉️ |
🖌Available for freelance and contract work!
✨️ Seeking representation ✨️
Check out my ko-fi shop @ ferragottiart
💼 ferragottiart.com
Priscilla Gilman @priscillag.bsky.social Disabled writer 💪🏼
Artist 🖌️
Kidlit devotee 📚
Geek 📡
she/her
Rep’d by: ✨Emily Keyes✨
@esckeyes.bsky.social
👉🏻 http://priscillagilman.net 👈🏻
Cydney Cherepak @cydneycherepak.bsky.social Illustrator, comics creator, pasta lover, occasional quilter (she/her)
cydneycherepak.com
Bakka Phoenix Books @bakkaphoenix.bsky.social Canada's oldest Speculative Fiction bookstore, founded in 1972. www.bakkaphoenixbooks.com. We are located in Toronto, Ontario.
Layne Johnson | Children’s Author - Is Querying @laynejohnsonkidlit.bsky.social Layne Johnson is a picture book writer/aspiring illustrator. #SCBWI. Humor and Heart|STEAM and SEL|ADHD #amquerying
Website: https://laynejohnsonkidsbooks.com/
Brian Harold Taylor @brianharoldtaylor.bsky.social Kid Lit Illustrator, Comic Artist and Animator. Creator of THE WILDER.
www.brianharoldtaylor.com
For freelance inquiries contact info@shannonassociates.com
Alexandra Dawe @alexandradawe.bsky.social Writer and artist in Devon, UK. Inconsistent poster. Dawe is pronounced 'door'. No AI in my art or writing, ever.
Rep'd by @belllomaxmoreton.bsky.social
The Stitchwort Curse published by @foxandinkbooks.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/alexandradawe
Nadia Ali @nadiaawriter.bsky.social KidLit Author:
RAISAH AND THE BOAT TRIP (2023),
HUMPHREY THE EGG_SPLORER (2023)
THE ANIMAL SOCIETIES SERIES (2023)
12x12 Challenge
David Perlmutter @davidperlmutter.bsky.social Canadian white male autistic writer. Author of America 'Toons In: A History of Television Animation and The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Also author of speculative fiction, superhero fiction and anthropomorphic ("furry") fiction.
Anxiety ClubHouse @anxietyclubhouse.bsky.social I am not a doctor. Do not take my advice. I'm just trying to survive.
Charles C.M. Kellom @bycharleskellom.bsky.social Husband, father, writer, poet, & educator. Comics, social justice, politics, and the future. Former admin staff at Northwestern, GMU, OWU. Hamline MFA '23. UDayton MA.
Mary Hertz Scarbrough @mjscarbrough.bsky.social U.S. Midwesterner living/loving all the biking, museums, and stroopwafels in Amsterdam. Dog lover. Writer for kids: shortlisted by the Historical Novel Society and Mslexia.
Dana Benge @danabengeart.bsky.social Healing and dealing through creativity. Procreate artist, mostly. Sometimes watercolor and mixed media. ❤️🌈☮️
Jen Baker @libraryjen.bsky.social GenJones Yaya, new K-5 librarian, former HS librarian (was @CanesLibrarian on the bird site), Antiracist, Pro🌈 , Mindfulness, SEL & nature. Recently returned from a long gardening sabbatical.
Tristen Grant @tristengrant.com 🇨🇦 I create a webcomic called Cat and Bot and make ambient music. He/him
Website/Blog: https://tristengrant.com
Comic: https://catandbotcomic.com
Links: https://tristengrant.com/links
Support: https://ko-fi.com/catandbot
Zazie Todd PhD @zazietodd.bsky.social Writer. Dog and cat behaviour and training. Award-winning author of Wag, Purr, Bark!. Blog: Companion Animal Psychology. Podcast: The Pawsitive Post in Conversation. Maple Ridge, BC, Canada. #Dogs #Cats #Books https://www.companionanimalpsychology.com/
Meaghan @megsscribbles.bsky.social Writer. Illustrator. Ink enthusiast. 🍁
My books for young readers include The Bear House, Movers, and Cheat Code. Lydia Cooper is a Lie coming (Summer 2026).
Books: https://meaghanmcisaac.com/
Illustration: https://draw.meaghanmcisaac.com/
Jane Whittingham @raincityjane.bsky.social Canadian picture book author, children's librarian, tea drinker and mum.
Newest book: 24 SLEEPS TILL CHRISTMAS (2025, HarperCollins Canada)
www.raincitylibrarian.ca
Gary McGath @gmcgath.bsky.social Freelance writer. Lover of liberty, music, and cats. Author of The Magic Battery, Spells of War, Files that Last, and Tomorrow's Songs Today. On Bluesky I post a lot about classical music and silent film.
https://garymcgath.com
Kate Milford @katemilford.bsky.social Author of fantasy and mystery for young readers, writing from Brooklyn, NY, and Creve Coeur, Nagspeake. The most recent Roaming World tale, RIALTO, is out now!
Laura Polasek @polaseklj.bsky.social Writer. Mom. Lover of books and tea | 🇨🇦📚🫖 #amquerying
CANSCAIP PB Shortlist '23, Longlist '24 | #kidlitvibes winner '23 | #KidsChoiceKidlitWritingContest MG winner '24 | Lyrical Language Lab Rhyming Contest Longlist '24 | Halloweensie HM '25
Anna M Lewis @annamlewis.bsky.social Author/ Illustrator | Toy Inventor | Sarcasm Queen | Pursuer of Creative Ideas | Constantly Spiraling Down Some Rabbit Hole