Writer. Literacy Coach. Lover of people and words. #SCBWI #KidsChoiceWinner -'24 #KidLitVibesWinner-'23 #50PreciousWordsHM-'23, '24 Pub'd in @DirigibleBalloon-'25
Author—THE DAY-GLO BROTHERS, SHARK VS. TRAIN, WHOOSH! & WE MATCH! Freelance editor—fiction/nonfiction. VP—Texas Institute of Letters. Loves visiting schools. https://linktr.ee/bartography
Senior Editor at LBYR & Requited 📚 please don’t pitch me your book here! ❤️
Books that support young people's social, emotional & educational needs. https://linktr.ee/freespiritpublishing
"The standard of excellence in children's books" - Forbes
Barefoot Books is an award-winning, independent, women-owned and run, children’s book publisher based in Concord, MA.
PB writer. #KidsChoiceKidLitWritingContest ‘24 Winner. #50PreciousWords '25 Honorable Mention. #PBParty ‘21 Honorable Mention. SCBWI. Creativity enthusiast. Certified Life Coach. #MentalHealth www.amandashayne.com
The West’s oldest bookstore (since 1851!) 🎉
8 Neighborhood shops + 2 @flysfo✈️
Community support matters — currently reorganizing under Chapter 11❤️
www.booksinc.net
Welcome! We are a bountiful bunch of KidLit creatives with picture books sailing your way. Hop aboard! #PBCreativeCrew #picturebookauthor #scbwi
Author & Educator #PictureBooks and #ChapterBooks. HAZEL AND MABEL: TWO HEARTS APART releasing from @GnomeRoadPublishing in Fall 2025. #SCBWI #12x12PBChallenge #WritingBarn #RateYourStory Judge
www.MelissaStoller.com
Empowering and advocating for libraries and library workers to ensure equitable access to information for all. 🌎’s largest library association.
Find us at https://ala.org.
We follow the ALA Code of Conduct: https://www.ala.org/user-guidelines
Author + Illustrator | 2x Newbery Medalist | National Book Award Finalist | NYT Bestseller | Agent: Sara Crowe | Faculty: USF MFAY | https://linktr.ee/erinentrada
Authors working together to ensure fair pay, protect copyright, and defend free speech.
Trade publishing's daily rundown, and sibling of the source of Deal Reports.
Welcome to SCBWI Canada West on Bluesky social! Let's connect together to the world of children's literature.
Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators
Supporting quality children’s books & the artists who make them since 1971.
https://www.scbwi.org/regions/rmc
Conference link tree: https://linktr.ee/rmcscbwi
This is the official Bluesky account for the Ohio North chapter of the Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators. #scbwi #SCBWIOhioNorth
Learn about us and our events and resources:
https://linktr.ee/ohionorthscbwi
Friend + cheerleader to those who create stories for children. Official account for the Houston chapter of the SCBWI
www.scbwi.org/regions/houston
Welcome to SCBWI SF North & East Bay!🤗 Follow us! Facebook and Pinterest: SCBWI CA/San Francisco North & East Bay Region Instagram: scbwinortheastbay
Indiana Chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators
Banner art credit: James Newton
Social Media Coordinator: Melissa Chupp
https://www.scbwi.org/regions/indiana
https://www.scbwi.org/regions/canada-east
Canada East Chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. 🇨🇦
Banner art credit: Jan Dolby (https://www.jandolby.com/)
Alaskan Chapter of SCBWI (Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators) • Find us on FB for additional event updates at SCBWI Alaska Chapter
https://www.scbwi.org/regions/alaska
Regional chapter serving SCBWI members from San Francisco and all coastal counties south to Monterey
If you’re a regional member, tag us on good news you want reposted!
https://www.scbwi.org/regions/sfsouth
✍️ We go beyond craft classes to transform pre-published writers into career authors with varying tools and community offerings to suit YOU.
Craft + Community + Connections = a Thriving Literary Life!
International Writing for Children/YA competition.
https://www.searchlightawards.co.uk/competitions/
Everything kid lit, in one place! A website and community founded by Elaine Kiely Kearns and @sylvialiu.bsky.social. Follow us for weekly links to kid lit resources and book giveaways.
website: kidlit411.com
Since 1990, we've helped thousands of writers learn the path to success as an author of books for children and teens. More info: https://writeforkids.online
The Complete Picture Book Submissions System is a soup-to-nuts, self-paced, online course for crafting winning submissions that soar out of the slush pile! Answers every question you've ever had about submitting picture books to agents and editors.
Sharing news about kids books from international publishers and domestic library and teacher conferences https://www.publisherspotlight.com
Supportive writing community & anthology publisher. We offer critique groups, panels, workshops, classes, social events, and a quiet space to write. https://www.thewritersloft.org
Check out our workshops: https://www.thewritersloft.org/loft-workshops
The Canadian Society of Children’s Authors, Illustrators and Performers (CANSCAIP), founded in 1977, is a national membership organization, a not-for-profit national arts service organization, and a registered charitable organization.
A hype pitch event for writers that fosters community, connection, and most of all—empowerment. Next Event: January 23rd on X and January 24th on 🦋 | Hosted by @drenderturmaud
Inked Voices helps writers find community, motivation and feedback to fuel their writing process. Human-centered, all online. www.inkedvoices.com
Join our region at scbwi.org/regions/midsouth
Regional Art by katiehowerton.com
A BlueSky exclusive storytelling hype/pitch event designed for storytellers to uplift and encourage one another and connect with industry professionals. All works are welcome, regardless of the stage they are in. (https://bluepit.carrd.co/)
Path To Publication: From The Querying Trenches To The Shelves. We’re writers sharing our publication journey along with tips & lessons! #P2Ppit hosts.
🔗 https://path2pub.wordpress.com/
#questpit is a writers hype event that welcomes industry participation || any stage of your wip can be pitched || run by @leonahwrites.bsky.social and @minaareis.bsky.social
https://questpit.carrd.co
SFF/middle-grade fiction/satire writer. Strategy/marketing consultant. Bagel the Dog's emotional support human. Dadjoke teller. Sentence-fragment lover. Disabled with #MECFS She/her effieseiberg.com/stories (or @effies@wandering.shop on Mastodon)
Bestselling author-illustrator of graphic novels and picture books including SMALLER SISTER and LITTLE GHOST MAKES A FRIEND
Publishers: Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House
Rep: Jen Rofé at Andrea Brown Literary
Maggiemadethis.com
Award-winning publisher of picture books for children 3-7 & non-fiction, fiction & graphic novels for children 8-12.
💁🏻♀️ Tattooed Momma.
👩🏻🏫 1st Grade Teacher.
📝 Author.
🦥 Fanatic.
💖 Chris Pratt’s Soulmate.
👸🏻 Repped by: Morgan Hughes, Fine Print Literary
✨🐉 LIBRARY GUARDIANS 🐉✨ coming Spring 2026 with @SorraBooks
Northern indie publisher | Winner of the IPG Nick Robinson Newcomer Award 2019 | Publishing the very best books in all genres | Home to NYALlitFest
Children's Author. Professional Voice & On-Camera Actor. Backyard Beekeeper. Classical Pianist in training.
Author Website: justincolonbooks.com
Critiques & Consultations: kidlithive.com
3rd-party TweetDeck for Bluesky from 🇧🇷! Featuring columns, multi-account, scheduling and inline translations! Developed by @gildaswise.com
App: https://deck.blue
Contact: hello@deck.blue
Donation: https://patreon.com/deckblue | https://ko-fi.com/deck_blue
Illustrator; writer of various things;
former #SCBWI IC and ARA;
co-host of #kidlitchat, Tuesdays at 9E/6P;
art and books at bonnieadamson.com
Writer. Likes to rhyme, though not when writing movies or novels. But you should see my shopping lists! Has never bought an orange. #kidlitchat cohost for 14+ years on ex-Twitter (and now here on Tuesday nights at 9 PM EST!). Still bats and throws righty.
Author | Poet | SDWF Kids Write Judge | MGpies | SCBWI Mentee: Joy McCullough | Agent: Leslie Zampetti | #KidLitChat [Tuesdays 9pm ET] | MG Hub | Highlight’s Kay Yoder Scholarship for US History ‘24 | Intern for Kaitlyn Sanchez | https://bit.ly/3Zf7FiH
Author of MG Fantasy. What the Sea Brings (OUT NOW!), The Necromancer's Apprentice, and Skullduggery. My cats love me
Links: https://linktr.ee/bevtwomey
Author: THE PRINCESS & THE FROGS and TWELVE STEPS, recycle-knitter, graphic designer (web/book design, etc.) #KidLitConfections cookie queen, book-grandma, #ActuallyAutistic. (she/her) https://vbartles.com
Spooky middle grade author, Nintendo nerd, music and movie friend. #SCBWI #HWA. 🚫AI
Troupes are the ropes on which we joyfully swing!
Art & Anthropology.
Artist. Illustrator. Writer. #KidLit.
Posts are my own.
jwogaman.weebly.com
She/her. Picture book writer/illustrator.
Rep: @swekstein.bsky.social
2024 Round Table Mentee, #PBParty Honorable Mention, #50PreciousWords HM.
Keep posting about your books; I want to read them!
sparklemarkers.com
TK-2nd grade librarian, Writer, Mom, Wife, & Grandma. Neurofibromatosis Advocate, Author of "The Library Kitty” & Owner of Academic Play Books.
lovingthelibrary.org
Definitely not a cryptid pretending to be human or anything.
KidLit Author, Illustrator, Designer. JasonHendrickson.com
Picture-book author/illustrator. #SCBWI Canada West Co-ARA.
deborahpaquette@shaw.ca
deborahpaquette.com
Werewolves.(Hugo winner) Strange Horizons Articles Senior Ed & Fiction Ed. COS
Originals ed. IGDN diversity board. Kidlit. Independent aca-fan. J. Damask. FIRE HEART (2024). COLD STEEL and WOLF'S PATH (2025). Giant Oarfish (imprint). (She/They/Qar)
Author, staff reviewer at YA Books Central, educator, and activist.
Letters from Lucca Preorder now on Amazon, Smashwords, and Apple
Picture Book Writer | MLIS
Co-Host of The Sartorial Librarians Podcast
@sartoriallibrary.bsky.social
Spotify: spoti.fi/3ANgYge
Apple: apple.co/4e4mM3h
Picture Book Writer
(TINY HIKER- Orca Book Publishers 2026)
Nature Adventurer
Outdoor Educator
Teacher
https://linktr.ee/natashazimmers
Editorial Director @ PEN America (formerly Today Show, NBC News, AP) and I write for kids. HOW TO BE A ROCK STAR (2022) CAN YOU IMAGINE? (Atheneum, 2025). #12x12
Kidlit Author | Wife & Mami | Chicana | WELCOME HOME, ESMERELDA (Charlesbridge, May 2025)| @SCBWI | Rep: Charlotte Wenger at Prospect Agency
writerdaniela.com
Pre-K Teacher ~ Author: THE GREAT COOKIE KERFUFFLE (AmicusInk 2022)
ALICE ALONE (AmicusInk March 2025)
🩵Picture Books🩵Plants🩵Animals🩵
https://www.authorjessicashaw.com/
Author and Illustrator of PEG GETS CRACKIN’ 2024 and PEG GETS PLUCKY 2025, available now! PEG’S EGG in spring 2026! Mom, grandma, animal and outdoor lover.
Rep’d by @swekstein.bsky.social
Website www.jorenfro.com
#Kidlit writer 📚 #SCBWI member 📚 Teacher librarian in a haunted library 👻 TOO MUCH! AN OVERWHELMING DAY '23 ✨ THE OFRENDA THAT WE BUILT '24 ✨ MAMIACHI AND ME '25 ✨ UNBREAKABLE: A JAPANESE AMERICAN FAMILY IN AN AMERICAN INCARCERATION CAMP '26 ✨
Latina author of IN CASE OF LAS MOSCAS (9/8/26), TOGETHER WE REMEMBER, ABUELO’S FLOWER SHOP, and more!
📚 Author. Educator. Mom.
☀️ MADE FOR MORE - HC 2/25/25
🥢 CHOPSTICKS ARE - Chronicle 26
✨️ chloeitoward.com
💜 Rep'd by @HeatherCashman
Preorder MADE FOR MORE below!
https://bookshop.org/p/books/made-for-more-chloe-ito-ward/21713485?ean=9780063334144
Cuban Mermaid & Author/Illustrator, repped by Saritza at Andrea Brown Literary Agency!
✨🎉 Debut Early Reader comic Snap! Crunch! Munch? is out now! 🎉✨
https://www.amazon.com/dp/082345696X
#Kidlitart Portfolio: dianacastleart.com
Children's Writer, Rhymer, Reader
https://linktr.ee/KellyConroy
Rep'd by Sarah Stephens | SCBWI | 12x12
You Are My Everything - Tiger Tales '24
I See You In The Stars - Familius '26
*Mostly on Instagram
Repped by The Seymour Agency
Children’s author
UPCOMING: Luna Picks a Lucky Dumpling, Charlesbridge Publishing, May 19, 2026
Luna and the Case of the Missing Mooncakes, 2025, Charlesbridge Publishing
Luna’s Yum Yum Dim Sum, 2020, Charlesbridge Publishing
Bestspelling author.
World chess ranking: 8,263,401,754.
WHEN SANTA WROTE BACK! (2025)
WHEN THE WITCH WROTE BACK! (2026)
Visit me here: https://hellonathan.ca
Join the "PB Workshop" Discord here: http://discord.gg/KSYfkNg
Rep'd by: Lilly Ghahremani
🇱🇰🇨🇦 God First | Tamil | STEMinist
No Purchase Necessary & Baby Virtues series
Wait Til You’re Older & Curry Means More
rep: @curtisbrown.ltd
Writes books for kids, repped by Triada US
RITU IN THE SUN (Random House Children’s, 2026)
STREET PUPPY, MASJID CAT (Little Bee Books, 2025)
THE FEAR FACTORY (Holiday House, 2026)
monizahossain.com
➡️ Boosting books for #Teachers, #Educators, #Librarians, #Parents, #Authors, #Writers, and #Readers
💙 Former #Teacher turned #Homeschool mama
✏️ #Kidlit #Writer and #SCBWI member
📚 Traditionally published #PB #Author
🖱️ elizabetheverettbooks.com
#Kidlit author #PB MUSIC OF THE MOUNTAINS '25 with Barefoot Books
#writementor #12X12 #TheGEAcademy #SCBWI
🇬🇧🇵🇰🇸🇬 🤲🏼
REWRITING THE RULES (Sept '25 Millbrook Press)
#MakingSTEMaccessible
Bio PhD | PB MG YA author |
1st pl '22: #rateyourstory & #springflingkidlit
3x winner #50PreciousWord '22/3/4;
Highlights sch '23
Rep: @gabycabezut @SeymourAgency
www.dannazeiger.com
Children’s Book Author
IF MY HAIR HAD A VOICE (Beaming Books) • INVENTIONS TO COUNT ON (Abrams Appleseed) • Rep: Ammi-Joan Paquette
danamiroballi.com
Instagram: noshesthebear
#KIDLIT
#CHICAGO
Children’s Book Author, PB Writer: HANUKKAH PAJAMAKKAHS (@Sourcebookskids) Fall 2024. Rep’d by @renarossner. Debut 2024. SCBWI, 12x12, www.darahenry.com for more.
Award-winning #kidlit author / Ocean Activist / Retired Scuba Instructor and Boat Captain bringing a unique voice from the ocean. Rep'd by Andie Smith and CMA Lit
Children’s poet. Abrams will publish Little Witch’s To-Do List in 2025–the first of four Magical List Books. Co-winner 2021 YorkMix International Children’s Poetry Prize & 2018 MG Katherine Paterson Prize. Poems published in many magazines and anthologies
👋 Hi! I’m Dano. I write for kids.
📘Pride is Love 🏳️🌈
📗Our Wish for You ✨
📕Hope for Ryan White 🌱
Rep’d by Charlotte Wenger
danomoreno.com
Picture Book Author & Poet. https://www.kirstenpendreigh.com/
WHEN A TREE FALLS, PW ⭐️; WHAT FISH ARE SAYING, SLJ ⭐️; MAYBE A WHALE, Horn Book⭐️ Fanfare Book; JLG, CCBC⭐️; LUNA'S GREEN PET (Quill & Quire Book of the Year. Next: CAMPING IS A TERRIBLE IDEA.
Kidlit author- BRAVO, LITTLE BIRD & SIGNS OF FRIENDSHIP out now!
www.anniesilvestro.com
Author, illustrator, former pastry chef.
❄️🩰THE ABOMINABLE SNOW DANCER (Penguin Workshop): out now!
🐍🪨 MEDUSA'S PET ROCK (HarperCollins): 9/22/26
Rep: @allielevick.bsky.social
Website: bit.ly/stephlaubooks
Albert Einstein Fellow 24-25. Science educator. Award-winning author of books for children and teachers. PAEMST Finalist. SCBWI & 12 x 12. Rep: Tricia Lawrence at EMLA. All opinions are my own.
https://linktr.ee/jessicafgwrites
Poet, novelist, general word-nerd, gardener, photographer, foodie, film lover. My favorite people on the planet are children, which is why I write for them. Oh! And I'm a freak for roses, watercolor, and collage. Author of Ordinary Hazards, a memoir.
Author of the Frank and Bean series, Dakota Crumb, Joe and Sparky series, Come On In! & more. Hazel the Handful coming Spr25! 🐶
www.jamiemichalakbooks.com
Author | Artist | Photographer
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The Gift of Baptism (‘25), Sparrow’s Prayer (Beaming Books 2023), Sparrow’s Easter Garden (‘26), Sparrow’s Blue Christmas (‘26)
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Rep’d by Keely Boeving
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www.rogerhutchisonbooks.org
WIP - Debut Contemporary Romance “A Love like the Movies”📚. Mom from Minnesota✨. Looking to build my community! Member of SCBWI
Children’s book author of over 50 books, school presenter, freelance writer, decent cook. Travels whenever possible. Rep’d by Unter Agency. www.suefliess.com
Children’s author working with Scholastic, Farshore, Magic Cat, Faber&Faber, Macmillan. Writes for Oxford University Press as Swapna Reddy. Represented by Millie van Grutten at RCW Literary Agency. She/her.
swapnahaddow.com
Author/Illustrator, Toy Designer, Mom, Artist, Rock Collector, Book sniffer | Illustrator of the Archie and Pip series | She/Her | Represented by @AdriaGoetz @KTLiterary
https://bio.site/MariRichards
Encouraging others to get know science a little better. Kidlit author. Science educator. Rock collector. Stargazer. Nature photographer. Animal buddy. They/She. Repped by Ammi-Joan Paquette.
www.KatieSlivensky.com
Illustrator and author of picture books, big reader, over thinker, dog lover, screen printer, allotment grower, green, ally, she / her
http://www.everythingispattern.com
Enviro scientist. Kidlit author. linktr.ee/kelliedubaygillis Out now: IF YOU FIND A FAWN art by Wazza Pink from Disney’s Planet Possible & BIG BIKE, LITTLE BIKE art by Jacob Souva from HarperCollins. Great Lakes lover living near Cleveland. Go Blue!
What do I do?
✨ Help kidlit authors write & revise their books
✨ Host Middle Grade Made Easy(er) podcast
✨ Run Rhyme Made Easy(er) membership
Start here⇣
https://linktr.ee/LouPiccolo
Lori Kilkelly (she/her) posting for my boutique literary agency. Reps seasoned & rising talent in children's & YA lit (est 2018).
We are a full service literary agency repping the best books in the world since 1981. (Not that we're biased.) We LOVE books and their creators! www.andreabrownlit.com
Literary agency representing a diverse list of bestselling/award-winning authors. We ❤️ immersive reads, stories that move you, and ideas that make you think.
