Literary Agent at The Ampersand Agency for Children's, Adult and Graphic Novels.
www.katieblagden.com
Author, doctor, researcher and parent. Here for the #kidlitcommunity. My MG novel Dream Hunters came out Aug 2024 Simon and Schuster. #ukkidlit #booksky
Lecturer at Bath Spa Uni and sometimes Uni of Lincoln (I like train travel), freelance editor and copywriter, author of books about fame-hungry unicorns and exploding toilets, and now PhD researcher into the intersection of AI, comedy and literature. Busy
Adventures in the UK, Europe & California. 🤺 🚕 Bath Spa MA Writing for Young People ‘22. 📚 SL Searchlight ‘21. LL Guppy ‘22. LL WriteMentor & Searchlight ‘24. 🇺🇸🇫🇷🇬🇧
Blue Peter Book of the Year author. Writes for children and adults, 60+ books translated into 30+ languages. Occasional ghost. Agent: Penny Holroyde at Holroyde-Cartey.
davidlong.info
#MG #YA #amquerying #KidLit #writinglife Nature is magical. 📚✍️☕️🍫
Children's book author, champion of children's literature, specialising in author interviews and blog tours.
Children's Author |
Alien in the Jam Factory series published by @walkerbooksuk and
‘I Got This’ published by @scholasticinc
Drawing on our years of experience in publishing, bookselling and agenting we’re focused on finding new voices and untold stories, helping authors turn their ideas into books and supporting them at each point in their writing career.
Brad Bigelow, Missoula, MT
bradbigelow.com
Author, Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts
Editor, Recovered Books series @ Boiler House Press:
www.boilerhouse.press/recovered-books
Editor, neglectedbooks.com. Champion of reading off the beaten path.
Book blogger and UK Fantasy MG & YA writer. Creative Writing PhD student working with classical mythology.
Children's writer - I am in touch with my inner child - he makes me do things.
Children’s author of inclusive, heart-warming stories 💛
✨ Rep’d by Lydia Silver at Darley Anderson.
⭐️ LOGAN’S LANTERN available for pre-order! ⭐️
https://linktr.ee/lucytcwrites
Children’s writer - books include The Last Wild, Midnight Treasure and Tree Thing. Plays include Box of Delights (RSC)
Writer.
My debut novel, This Dark Heart is out now.
Writer of many different things. LL Bath Children's Novel, Honorary Mention SCBWI UV2024, Special Mention Searchlight Best Novel Beginning, #MAWFYP #SCBWI #GEA
International prizes for emerging writers
✨The Bath Novel Award | Prize £5,000 | C/d 31 May
✨The Bath Children's Novel Award | Prize £5,000 | C/d 30 Nov
www.bathnovelaward.co.uk
Writer type. Making it up as I go. 📖. #TheTwelve out now. Other books #TheIllusions #TheGifts & #Bearmouth. Fond of wanders. Lover of books, films, art & wildlife. Nerd.
Neurodivergent (AuDHD). Learner. Dreamer. Award-winning children's author. Musings on books, writing, creativity and ND life. Agent: Lydia Silver
https://linktr.ee/rashmiwriting
Author 🐙🐉🚢 MG historical adventures: @chickenhsebooks chapter books: @bigcatreading
and more!
Rep: @litagentclare
She/her
Word wrangler of psychological thrillers The Stalker & YA Scare Me & more! Freq enraged. Obsessed with stationery & easily distracted by cats & dogs. She/her. Website https://teriterry.jimdoweb.com/
An unusual mix of 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇦🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇫🇮
She/her. Herder of cats. Devourer of Books. Children's writer. Children's book reviewer for @mybookcorner.bsky.social, member of Craigmillar Literacy Trust, CWIG, societyofauthors.bsky.social and supporter of Cymerafestival.co.uk. #ViewsMyOwn #BeKind
I am an author and illustrator of children's picture books and fantasy adventure novels, artist and toy designer.
Writer, parent, concerned resident of Planet Earth. she/her
🤗Author of Flame Chasers and The Last Spell Breather. Made in Wales 🏴
Author: Bloomsbury Children's, Barrington Stoke
Rep: Sam Copeland at RCW
Made of Port Talbot steel
Chopsy
lesleyparr.com
Writer, Educator, Believer in Kindness. More at www.rachelbarnett.co.uk
writer | middle-grade fiction | history lover | book hoarder #amquerying #amwriting #kidlit #middlegrade
Middle school English teacher, MG writer, SCBWI member, Pitch Wars alum, dog lover.
melaniependleton.com
Reader. Teacher. ND. Autistic/ADHD (AuDHD).
📒Author of All Brains Are Wonderful (b small publishing) 🧠💛
📗Author of 100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: Reading for Pleasure (Bloomsbury) 📚💚
📖Children's Books Consultant
🏆Book Award Judge
✍️Educational Writer
Writer of flash and micros. Wannabe writer of children's fiction (WIP).
Children's author rep'd by Lucy Irvine at Peters, Fraser and Dunlop. Picture books with UCLan Publishing, Quarto, Rocket Bird Books and Andersen Press. Website: www.francestosdevin.com
Writing YA. Vaguely incompetent around social media.
#TotallyDeceased #CloudNine both out now with Scholastic UK
Rep: Rachel Petty
@tbpagency.bsky.social
Winner #WMCNA 2020 #UV2022
Writer of MG fiction, GEA Member, Part time gardener and piano teacher (not at the same time) and mum of two wonderful sons and a slightly crazy cat.
Kidlit Illustrator, designer and writer 🌿 Rep'd by The Bright Agency. Clients include Hachette, Scholastic, National Geographic.
Author: 13 Treasures, A Pinch of Magic, Twice Upon a Time, There’s A Beach in My Pants & more.
www.michelleharrisonbooks.com
Children’s writer. 🏆Winner of Little Tiger IAmInPrint Picture Book Prize ‘23. 🏆Winner of SCBWI Slushpile Challenge ‘24. Runner-up Write Mentor Chapter Book Award ‘24. SL for Searchlight Awards ‘24. SL for Write Mentor PB Award ‘24 & ‘25 #MAWYP
Author. Business person. Made in Brum. Nerd. Unfinished feminist. new book #ControlAlterDelete out now for pre order #ukkidlit #ukya 🖤🩶🤍💜she/her
Writer, DM, Storyteller and a fan of all things fiction.
Represented by the Rights Factory
http://claysheldon.com/
Check out this fantasy murder mystery party game! https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/402695/mysteries-of-the-flying-haddock-a-trilogy
Author, ringbearer, nerd in the Swiss Alps. ADHD/Chronic Illness. She/her 🏳️🌈
RÁN’S DAUGHTERS out MARCH 4, 2025 from Outland Entertainment
I like Vikings, crochet, and cats.
https://linktr.ee/KaitlinFelix
Kidlit author UK. The Goat and the Stoat and the Boat Shortlisted for THE LOLLIES! Mostly writing funny picture books and MG. Repp'd by @ambercaraveo at Skylark.
Author of the GREAT FOX series. Capable of typing and making things up simultaneously.
Agent: morgangreencreatives.com
Me: justynedwards.com
Annual Caterpillar Poetry Prize and art & lit mag for children (2013-2023), still available online. Younger sibling of @themothmagazine.
Writer ✍️Teacher 👩🏫 Mum 👦👧
🏆 Write Mentor CB Award 2024.
🏆 Books That Help PB Mentorship 2022.
Children’s Author
🌲 LITTLE SPRUCE
🎈 KINDNESS COMES BACK
⛵️ THE BEDTIME BOAT
🤖 THE MATHS ADVENTURERS
🪔 DIWALI
Rep'd by Becky Bagnell
sitalgorasiachapman.com
Reader, children’s writer, library lover 📚she/her
Functioning chocoholic. Writer of novels for middle grade. MAISIE VS ANTARCTICA and MAISIE VS THE HIMALAYAS out now. Rep @LinaLanglee 🏴
Hello, I’m a children’s author from London. My first book, SMALL! is out now. And so’s the sequel: SMALL BITES BACK
Publisher: Everything With Words
https://hannahmoffatt.com/
I write books for children, and other things too. Like gardening, museums and art galleries, nature, and looking at things and listening to people…
I love to write PBs, CBs and MG, and silly songs 📖 📕 🎶💜 www.trunkythetree.com @trunkythetree on all social media platforms😁🌳 #kidlit #writingcommunity
🇬🇧📚Black British history enthusiast, children’s author and avid reader of diverse and inclusive children’s and YA books.
Scruffy Illustrator and author
https://www.davidlitchfieldillustration.com
We're a commercial publisher with an indie heart, sharing brilliant books that break the mould.
Publisher of award-winning books that change and broaden perspectives 📚
Book lover, film watcher, food maker, image taker
flip-flop is my nature
https://www.bigbeardedbookseller.uk
https://ko-fi.com/bigbeardedbookseller
Writer of writerly things
Cycler of cycles
Writer of books and games mostly about art, mystery and murder for you and the kids in your life. Lives on a ship in Rotterdam. Used to work in museums and galleries for ages. Miss it. Addicted to Reddit and Beat Saber.
https://www.sharnajackson.com
Award-winning, former World Book Day author | Carnegie Nom x3 | Books: BOY,EVERYWHERE | FIGHT BACK |BOOT IT | KICKED OUT and 12 others from pb - teen | PublishersWkly⭐️, ALA Notable Book, a Guardian & Kirkus & Booklist BOOK OF THE YEAR
Instagram: @a.m.dassu
#KidLit Illustrator / Surface Designer
Obsessed with color & inspired by nature
Represented by James McGowan at BookEnds Literary Agency
bio.site/angelamatteson
Costa Award winning children’s author ASHA, TAMARIND, AARTI, XANTHE, NUSH and more! agent Kate Shaw I write magical adventures with animals and nature in them mostly @chickenhouse @barringtonstoke @walker
www.jasbinderbilan.co.uk
I write funny books for children and teens and sometimes I illustrate them too.
⭐️The Land of Roar
⭐️Fairy Vs Boy
⭐️Friends Like Us
Teacher, author, yoga enthusiast, carb-lover, Hawaii-dreamer and try-hard mom 🇨🇦 Repped by @essiewhite.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/JenWalkerAuthor
Join @exlibrismrhunt.bsky.social and @paulvinelli.bsky.social for celebrations of picture books & librarian fashion.
Apple: https://apple.co/4e4mM3h
Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3ANgYge
Instagram: https://bit.ly/4dCh09b
Supporting primary teachers with teaching ideas and resources since 1998!
Children’s Book Designer, Illustrator and Author -with a silly sense of humour
Represented by The Bright Agency
Clients include, Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Scholastic…
HLTA, primary school librarian, children’s book blogger, spaniel wrangler, tea drinker, cricket watcher. Very easily distra
https://missclevelandsreading.com/
Children’s librarian, reviewer and blogger. Past chair of Carnegie and Kate Greenaway awards. Love crafts, reading and art.
UK Writer. Member of the Society of Authors. GEA alumni. SCBWI. Debut Middle-Grade novel due for publication 28th Feb. 2025.
Book mad writer of children’s stories, obsessed with the sea, primary teacher by day. Organiser of Step into Stories with Bewdley Festival
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
Author of Ember and Where The Light is Hottest. Freelance writer. Editor-in-chief of Frost Magazine. Words in The Sunday Times, Mslexia, The Bookseller, The Guardian, Metro.
Children's Writer | Write Mentor PB Award LL 25, 24, Searchlight Awards PB LL 23, Writing Magazine PB Prize LL 23, Books That Help RU 24 #KidlitUK
⭐️Primary advisory teacher
⭐️Children's book blogger
⭐️Former English lead
⭐️Workshop provider
⭐️Awards judge
⭐️Resource creator
😀Children's mental health advocate
www.LibraryGirlAndBookBoy.com
YA author | Proofreader | YA Book JAM Podcast
Author MG/Teen Horror & Paranormal Fiction #DeloresMackenzie
Hiker; Trail Runner; Cute dogs; Not-so-cute-dogs; Gothic Fiction; Cake; Strong Coffee; Often found in dungarees and Docs (yes at my age!)
MG writer, reader, dog-lover, based in the UK. Member of SCBWI, SoA and WriteMentor
Barefoot dreamer. Also author YA BOOK OF FIRE trilogy @hqstories & THE FAIRFAX SISTERS SERIES out now @onemorechapterhc Rep’d @northbanktalent
Reads a lot. Writes a lot. Doesn't sleep much.
2024 Books That Help Us Mentorship Winner
https://www.booksthathelp.co.uk/mentorship
I write children's books from picture to young adult and am working towards submitting to agents.
Words, pictures and plants. Author of Knitbone Pepper series, Picklewitch and Jack series. Hettie Nettle’s Handbook for Hedgewitches out now. Rep’d by Julia Churchill at AM Heath. https://linktr.ee/clairebarker
Hi! I write & illustrate PBs/poems/MG & work for @thebookery.bsky.social 📚 Pub'd: The Toy, PaperBound, The Dirigible Balloon, Little Thoughts Press & Tyger Tyger. Debut PB:The Go Away Rain Dance, Feb 26, HB Publishing
https://linktr.ee/claire_f_lewis
📚The new, non-Twitter home of #MSWL! We are a way for agents and editors to tell writers what they *wish* they had in their inboxes. Full agent profiles here: https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/ Newsletter: https://manuscriptwishlist.com/subscribe
🎧Twice-weekly podcast episodes with authors & book lovers
📚Book reviews & recommendations
🏴Scotland
🙋🏻♀️Susie - She/her
Links to listen: https://linktr.ee/inmygoodbookspod
Writer for children, eater of chocolate, library worker. CROSSING THE LINE (Hot Key Books, 2023) Shadower's Choice Carnegie Medal 2024. Upcoming NOT GOING TO PLAN (2025) and OPERATION DOODLEBUG (2026) #MAWFYP She/her tiafisher.com, repped by Eve White.
Writer. Workshop leader. YA. Gothic. ND. #WWM #Room204 #Spark lead writer
One time #Sydneysider one time #Calgirl always #Stokie Oatcakes are the food of the gods.
Author LILITH 🐍🍎🌴 ON WILDER SEAS 🌊⚓️🌅 Historical Fiction | Mythology | Ancient Women | Agent: DKW Literary Agency
www.nikkimarmery.com
Writer of stories for children and young adults. Lover of the great outdoors for walking and running. Be kind, be scary, have fun.
I write picture books.
Debut: MANDY IS STILL A BANANA, Hachette Children’s - out now.
Agent: James Catchpole.
www.zoearena.com
Award-winning author
Quiz, puzzle & strategy game fanatic
5 kids, 1 dog 😅
Agent: Tanera Simons, Greenstone Lit
Linktr.ee/clairemccauley
Children's author based in the Hebrides. Rory and the Snack Dragons, the Highland Cowgirl & the Great Auks Great Escape. Mostly #kidlit books and wildlife. louisamacdougall.co.uk
Editor and writer. Résumé specialist (CPRW). Book award judge. Dog hugger. Science fiction, kidlit, and anything else with themes of possibility. she/her
#SCBWI #ACES #EFA #IBPA
detaileddraft.com
