The official Bluesky account of the English and Creative Writing department of The Open University, UK.
Poet. 'Interlude' out now with Haywood Books. Expert Children's Bookseller. Vegan. Unclaimed out 8.2.26 with Whittle.
Cornerstones is the #1 transatlantic literary consultancy. We are the writer’s friend, and we believe your story matters.
Writes magical middle grade fiction. Often found wandering the woods in search of an adventure. Loves cats, tea, and D&D. Rep'd by Amber Caraveo at Skylark Literary. Debut MG novel Crow: Thief of Magic out May 2026 with HarperCollins Children's Books.
Writer of The Faberge Girl, winner of London Novel Awards 2024; SL Adventures in Fiction Award & Cinammon Prize; LL Mslexia Novel Award, Blue Pencil Awards; PR in the day
We recommend children’s and YA books to teachers, parents, librarians and schools. Free resources, free reviews and no paywall. #GoAllIn
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"NINE-TENTHS" out 09/30! | Author | 2011 PW Best Books | 2024 NYT Best Romance Books | Bisexual | Cane-wielder | Wine Nerd | She/Her
⭐️Primary advisory teacher
⭐️Children's book blogger
⭐️Former English lead
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😀Children's mental health advocate
www.LibraryGirlAndBookBoy.com
The ‘one stop spot’ for the spooky, kooky, magical, fantastical, weird and wonderful world(s) of Children’s Literature & Illustration!
https://octoberjones.co.uk/
Daydreamer. Writer. Imposter. Perpetually restless.
#amquerying
Author & Screenwriter | I 🩶 Arts & Sciences, Sculpting, Cartography, Cooking, Baking, Fashion, Fitness, Fairytales, & Historical Things.
https://linktr.ee/hollyvalakresch
Multi-award winning children’s author of The Last Bear, The Lost Whale, Finding Bear & Turtle Moon / Coming Oct: The Lone Husky
Ex KS2 teacher, children’s book blogger and lover of undunked biscuits and Lego. Currently reading all the books. Autistic. She/her.
Blog: https://worldssmallestlibrary.wordpress.com/
Book-obsessed, theatre-loving feminist with a liberal outlook on life. Mental health champion. Award winning book blogger.
https://bookaholicbex.wordpress.com/
Katharine: Celt. Charity worker.
Ink drinker & word wrangler of dark fiction
Book Reviewer: Historical Novel Society
https://open.substack.com/pub/mywritingshenanigans
Short story published Bloody St Albans 22
Top 100: Cheshire Novel Prize 23
Mum to a
here for book chat; find me on all the other places as LittleWolfsBooks
Spells & Spaceships SFF book reviews 🧙🏼♂️🚀
Also enjoy & read/review:
Dark & Middle Ages history/hist. fiction ⚔️
Science & Nature🦊🪶🌲
Norse Mythology 🐐🐐
Lover of Castles 🏰
Susan
Avid reader and book reviewer
🏴 Scotland
Bookstagram - up.too.late.reading
Sleep is overrated when there are great books to read!
Launched in 1980, we review hundreds of new children’s books each year and publish articles on every aspect of writing for children. Explore new issues and our 40 year archive for free on our website www.booksforkeeps.co.uk
Children's book author and Illustrator of the Year 2025. #DrawWithRob, Peanut Jones, I Follow the Fox, Gigantic, Odd Dog Out, Show and Tell, Blown Away, GRRRRR! & more.
Agent: @jodiehodges.bsky.social
www.robbiddulph.com
www.youtube.com/@DrawWithRob
Publishing commentator. Founder of Meet The Booktokers, As Seen On Booktok, and The Empowered Author. Trying to disrupt book publishing for 15+ years. Not easy.
Author of books involving folklore and bad decisions.
Autistic. Bestselling author and award winning screenwriter. Agent: Lauren Gardner.
Winner of Blue Peter Award & Overall Waterstones Children's Book Prize, 21. Emmy nominated #AKindOfSpark streaming on BBC iPlayer!
I like books📚
Bestselling author of YA and children’s books including 👑👑 TWIN CROWNS, 🐉DRAGON MOUNTAIN, and 👻SAM WU. Next: CAPTAIN OF FATES 🧜♀️⚓️✨
Wine lover, tree hugger, children's book author-illustrator, middle/high school art teacher in Paris.
California (native) 🐻
France (adoptee) 🐓
https://serendipiti.myportfolio.com/
https://www.instagram.com/maryjanelange4?igsh=ZngzZTBpdW5qbW1m
#1 New York Times bestselling author
We're Christina & Lo, co-authors of 30 books and counting 💜
🏝️ The Paradise Problem 5/14/24
👑 Tangled Up in You 6/25/24
Book Blogger | Bookstagrammer | Eclectic Reader
University of Oxford research centre into performances inspired by ancient Greece and Rome: stage plays, ballets, films, tv, audio dramas, drag shows, dance, animation, musicals... from 1315 to present day!
http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk
History isn't made by kings or politicians, it's made by us: billions of ordinary people. https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory
Because what you read matters.
Bestselling children’s author: Podkin, Dungeon Runners, Jed Greenleaf 📚
https://linktr.ee/kieranlarwood?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Northern writer. Author of The Disappeared. Stories in The London Reader, Reflex Press, Palm-Sized Press. Finalist: Mslexia Short Story Comp/Dinesh Allirajah Prize. Arts marketer. Writer in residence Durham Writes & Crossing the Tees.
amylordauthor.com
Children’s author-The Housetrap & the Milton Series (Chicken House) | editor at EmDashED | WriteMentor | socially awkward weirdo science nerd
Autistic Working class 🏳️🌈 Writer, Artist, Editor, former SEN TA & Tombstone Tourist 🪦
#AutumnMoonbeam #MegaMerle - out now! #ukteenchat #WriteMentor #Room204 #NotesFromTheGraveyardShift
One half of Word Witches editorial ✍️
Author of nine psychological thrillers. STOLEN is out now! Linktree: https://bit.ly/3OPgOsz Newsletter link: https://bit.ly/RubySpeechleyNews @Boldwoodbooks.bsky.social
Author, freelance editor, creative writing tutor and fearless slayer of Doubt Demons. Also interested in mudlarking, singing with my choir, micro gardening, working class peeps and radical Jewish voices. Owned by my cat. She/her.
Author, Apples in the Dark series. Contemporary fiction drawn from my own experience of epilepsy. Ex-social care worker, believer in people. South Wales is my home. Returning Cymraeg learner 🏴
https://linktr.ee/wordswithjohn
39, Bath, UK
🎭 Theatre & Event Freelancer
Technical Manager
📹 Live Stream Producer
📷 Amateur Photographer
🎶 Arts / Culture Activist
Connect & find out more:
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#Theatre #TheatreSky #VisitBath #BathUK
Winner Bath Novel Award 2023. 2nd place Bath & Bridport Novel Award 2014. Flash in short & longlists (Bridport, Edinburgh, Lett Review, Scratch A4). I also teach writing. I live in the Tory-free UK. Photo: Martin Figura.
Kirkus ★ THE LOVELY DARK out April '26 🇺🇸 | Financial Times Best Children's Books '23 | Barnes & Noble Children's Book Award Shortlist '24 | Rep'd: Bell Lomax Moreton | No AI |🌱
linktr.ee/mattfoxwriter
Author/Actuary/Human
Everything will be OK in the end. And if it's not OK, then it's not the end.
Be kind.
Writer of #FlashFiction, #ShortStories and a never-finished novel. Spaniel-wrangler. Curmudgeon. Forest dweller. #MDANT She/her/cis rachaeldunlop.com
Novelist, rep’d by @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social. Thrillers: #LittleWhiteLies💛 #SafeAndSound❤️ #IllNeverTell💗 #AGuiltySecret🧡 Lives in Lincolnshire, has a cat. Clinical Psychologist by day.
Reading, writing, daydreaming. Quietly...
Author of A Little Bird Told Me & All Your Little Lies and Trustee MindFood CIO
@MarianneHAuthor everywhere
I write children's fiction. I puppy-wrangle. Hoffi coffi. If there's dancing, I'm in. Senior Lecture, Creative Writing at Lancaster. Published Bloomsbury, OUP, Andersen Press. All jokes my own. She/her
Author/Academic “…movingly explores the interconnectedness of our minds, bodies, spirituality and physical environment…”
MA, PhD, SFHEA, RLF / Multi-Carnegie nominee
(LFG, Chiefs)
Author of crime for kids.
#MurderatChristmas out October 25 with @nosycrow.bsky.social
West Country UK
Expert Children's Bookseller - she/her.
#kidlituk
@AgentKateShaw.bsky.social
We're a creative writing research centre based at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, organising and posting both research and community writing events. We repost lit subs calls!
https://creativeshowcase.aru.ac.uk/research/cambridge-writing-centre/
MG writer, reader, dog-lover, based in the UK. Member of SCBWI, SoA and WriteMentor
literary agent, speculative & literary adult fiction @ Bell Lomax Moreton. mainly on 📷. cheap wine enthusiast, TTRPG nerd, & Tolkien girlie. nd. views mine. 🚫 query DMs; 🚫 AI.
📍 ldn ❗she, they
🔗 https://linktr.ee/literaryfey
Author of THE CHOICE. Winner of the Good Housekeeping First Novel Competition.
Founder of Authors with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses (ADCI). Winner of the RNA Inclusion Award.
♿️💜 She/her
https://linktr.ee/clairerwade
Children’s author and sky whale adventurer!
Winner of NWN Hachette Children’s Novel Award.
#MAWYP @BathSpaUniversity.
Either hiking or writing. Sometimes both.
LL '24 Discoveries Prize | SL '24 Bath Novel Awards | Finalist '23 Mslexia Novel Comp
She/her
UK writer rep by Becky Bagnell @lindsaylit.bsky.social , magical/fantasy MG, YA romantasy, loves folklore and cake @WriteMentor CNA winner 2023, @writingawards SL ‘22, speech therapist, ADHD-er, Mum, 1st class cat butler, 2nd class archer
Debut novel THE SHOW WOMAN 🎪 out now from Hodder & Stoughton. Rep'd by Amanda Harris. Order THE SHOW WOMAN 👉 https://bio.to/m8w8bb
Sunday Times bestseller In the Blink of an Eye, winner of Theakston’s Crime Novel of the Year & CWA New Blood Dagger. Book 2 Leave No Trace. Agent: susanW1F
Writer, podcaster, speaker.
I write historical stories about badass women shaking things up, usually in Appalachia. Longlisted for the Bath Novel Award '23.
Rep: Gail Fortune. Mom of 3. She/Her.
katestreip.com
Author of histfic | Debut novel NEPHTHYS 🇬🇧 Harvill, Vintage, PRH | THE HOUSE OF TWO SISTERS 🇺🇸 Ballentine, PRH | Rep: Sarah Hornsley PFD Agency | THE SPIDER AND LILY coming March 2027
Founder and Literary Agent at www.HS-LA.com @HSLANews.bsky.social
#WeNeedDiverseBooks.
Story lover. Vintage typewriter obsessed. Feminist. She/Her/Ms
https://linktr.ee/hannah_litagent
LL Bath Children's, Mslexia & WriteMentor Children's Novel awards, 2nd in Wells Festival of Literature Book for Children & HC for Kelpies Prize for Writing. #kidlit
Love anything #mythology and #folklore related
https://www.elizabethfrattaroli.com/
Literary Agent at Skylark Literary, a specialist children's and YA literary agency. Always on the look-out for something great to read. 📚
Trying not to drink too much tea.
https://www.skylark-literary.com/
#ukkidlit #kidlituk
I write books. Sometimes win awards. Crop circle chaser. Myth lover. Collector of folklore. Here for the magic. https://www.lu-hersey.com/ https://www.patreon.com/Writingthemagic
Author of SCARLET AND IVY and VIOLET VEIL (HarperCollins). Lover of symphonic metal, books and all things spooky. She/her 🎃♿🏳️🌈
Bath/Wiltshire
Writer of novels.
Agent: Felicity Blunt at Curtis Brown.
We're a commercial publisher with an indie heart, sharing brilliant books that break the mould.
Hello we're WRDmag - The STUFFED-FULL-OF-BOOKS, BOOKY magazine all about new titles, authors & booky bits for 8-14 yr olds, since 2003. To read the latest magazine online: http://www.wrdmag.co.uk
▪️ Children's author writing stories & poems filled with giggles & warmth.
▪️Teacher
▪️Shortlisted for Sheffield Children's Book Award 2023
▪️www.emmaperryauthor.com she/her
Director & Lit Agent | No query DMs please
Associate Editorial Director @Usborne Fiction. Loves Reeses PB Cups, rhubarb gin and the fact I get to read amazing books for a living.
THE DROWNING PLACE | ‘Happy Valley, but haunted’ Anna Mazzola | Out in April from Harvill | ND. She/her | www.sarahhilary.com
Writer, wanderer, wonderer, always curious to learn more. Knows a smattering about much, but not much about anything.
Worried about biodiversity loss. What's happening is one big horror story.
Former politico, now professor of writing books. Sunday Times bestseller, Essex Girl, autistic. Never knowingly underdressed. She/her. Here for ALL the witches. And the pigeons.
https://joannanadin.com/
https://instagram.com/jonadin
Writer. Blood Red Road etc. Working on a thing.
Author of the Varjak Paw books, Phoenix and TYGER! I also write about children's books & all things connected - libraries, literacy & reading for pleasure.
http://www.sfsaid.com/
Children’s writer & artist 💫 Mama to best twins. Wonderlarker. ELSETIME 🪶 (2020), THE CHESTNUT ROASTER 🌰 (2022), THE LAST BOY 🧹 (2024)
MG author: Toby and the Silver Blood Witches, Max and Monty with Collins Primary
Winner of the Book Bloggers' Novel of the Year Award 2022
Owned by three-legged rescue dog
ME/CFS
https://linktr.ee/SallyDoherty
Nano-publisher & provider of self-publishing services based in Ilfracombe, Devon.
Submissions open for books with a strong focus on Devon and the South West.
https://www.bluepoppypublishing.co.uk
Popular writing community, est. 2007. Purveyors of fun & inspiration.
linktr.ee/virtualwriters | virtualwriters.org
Award winning children's author. 'No Ballet Shoes in Syria' 'Bird Boy'. Also writing as Cate Shearwater! Teacher too! Rep'd by Rupert Crew
Writer, bookworm
She/her
https://www.clareharlow.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/clareharlow
Award-winning children's author, poet, reviewer & commentator. Lifetime Ambassador CILIP School Libraries Group, ambassador Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival and Northern Children's Book Festival. Co-writer 'High in the Clouds' with Paul McCartney
Writer lurking on longlists in a baggy green jumper. Maker of jewellery for the Persisterhood http://wearandresist.com Do not obey in advance #resist
Writer of cozy crime series, The Supermarket Mysteries, plus psych thrillers, and YA (Numbers). Now non-fiction, Write Your Cozy Mystery. Takes photos of Bath, UK, draws, paints, wrangles dogs.
Author | Reader
Burnt Offerings out now on Amazon (Alien Buddha Press).
Words all over, Virago Books, Quarter Press, MoonLit Getaway, Micromance Mag etc.
Winner Caledonia Novel Award 24, Bridport Prize shortlist 25, Pushcart Prize nominee 26.
YA writer, repped by Jo Williamson. Undiscovered Voices 2024, Bath Children’s Novel Award LL x2, Write Mentor 2023 LL. 📚⚽️⛷️ she/her
Literary Agent at Johnson & Alcock
Champion of writers and cats
https://www.johnsonandalcock.co.uk/charlotte-seymour
Literary Agent at Mushens Entertainment
Bookseller 2024 Rising Star
Actively growing my list
Main platform: Instagram @rachelneelyagent
Elane & Sarah: writer uniters; friends to authors, publishers, agents and writers
We pioneered the best agent feedback service in the world - #Agent121
www.iaminprint.co.uk
A book prize celebrating writing by women translated into English. Winner announced 27th November 2025. From SCAPVC at the University of Warwick. Posts by Holly Langstaff.
Founder + literary agent @ The Plot Agency. Looking for reading group, crime, thriller, horror, contemporary rom com, spec fic, dystopian fic, narrative NF & other stories. Opinions my own. She/her
https://www.theplotagency.com/
A literary agency based in Edinburgh.
https://linktr.ee/portobelloliterary
Literary agent at Sheil Land Associates. Fair-weather gardener. Repairer of broken things. Magpie. Polyglot. she/her.
https://www.publishersmarketplace.com/members/gaiabanks/
Literary Agent & Founder of Sarah Such Literary Agency, London. Shortlisted Literary Agent of the Year x 3 at The British Book Awards. Represents outstanding, award-winning authors.
https://linktr.ee/sarahsuchliteraryagency
Literary agent @DHH and human (mostly). Here for the books and other larks. Find me on insta: agent_dianab
