Speculative Fiction writer.
#IBOR judge.
Reviewer on https://FanFiAddict.com
Website: https://iseultmurphy.com
Ko-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/iseultmurphy
Writer. Gardener. Neurospicy Jacky-of-all-trades.
Shortlisted w/ Senex Born (Iaminprint 2025), Raven Short Story Contest longlistee. Stories: Hyphenpunk, Black Cat Weekly, Gavagai & more
Reg. Adv. SCBWI 🇩🇪 + 🇦🇹. (she/her/hers)
https://linktr.ee/katjarammer
Writer repped by Sara Langham at David Higham Associates. National swimming champ 🇳🇿, sub-40 10K club, marathon runner, rugby faithful 🌹
In: The Independent, Brick Lane Bookshop, Witness Magazine, Newsroom, Hayden's Ferry+more. https://janecopland.com/
Teacher. MA Writing for Children. Golden Egg WYSCN. Divides time between reality and escapades in MG fiction. Lives with one family, two guinea pigs and a very demanding cheese plant.
Children's Book Author:
Picture Books & Fiction for 5-11 years
Love writing children’s books, reading them, talking about them
- and hearing kids talk about them!
My LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/julia-hubery
Book blogger at https://lindasbookbag.com and fanatical tea drinker
Reviewer for My Weekly and The People’s Friend
X Lindahill50Hill Insta ljh50hill 📚❤️
Aspiring published author of Middle Grade children's novels. Mom. Fan of inclusion and kindness. Doer of all the things. Lover of all the life.
Always tired. Never bored.
www.MythicalCreatureConservatory.com
Headteacher of the primary school I went to when I was little. Worked here for over 20 years and still love it. We were evacuated 16/01/23. Can’t wait to be back together as one school. Also love books.
https://theemmapress.com/shop/childrens/please-dont-read-the-footnotes-please/
www.robwaltonwriter.co.uk
“playful, zingy and warm”.
Carnegie Prize nominee.Whitley Bay via Scunny.All sorts of writing for all sorts of ages.
@robwaltonwriter on other places.
London author. Next novel Phantom at the Feast out on No Exit Press June 2026. Tony White is an RLF Fellow. CWA member. Views my own. No DMs. Mailing list etc.👇🏼
https://linktr.ee/author_tonywhite
Querying a YA dystopian #ANWH
Almost ready: a YA gamer Snow White SF romance
#WriteCBC winner Sept 2024
#Revpit ‘23, ‘24 & ‘25 shortlisted
#FallWritingFrenzy HM ‘23 & ‘24
❤️ Writing, books, movies, games ❤️ Chron ill
https://linktr.ee/annlittler
(she/her)
Writer. Brewer. Words in HAD, Aôthen Magazine. Shortlisted for 2024 Bridport Prize for Flash Fiction. 2024 London Independent Story Prize Finalist.
Author of The Starlit Road and Haven, Dragoon, Monarch, and Lastland (The War of Princes series is undergoing a 3rd edition). ♠️✨🌿📚
YA Fantasy & Sci-fi. Artist. Poet. Gamer. Nature lover.
Introvert with spasms of extroversion. Creative instigator.
(she/her)
Horror and Fantasy writer. Mom of two semi-feral girls and a growing pack of mutts. Married.
Follow for books, short stories & random things I find interesting
Member of HWA, Codex
2025 finalist for the Eugie Award.
tammykomoff.com
#writer #horror #fantasy
#MentalIllness🧠 #Neurodivergent #Autism🧩 #Teachers #WomensRights♀️ #HumanRights #LGBTQIA🏳️🌈 #Authors #Poetry✍️ #DisabilityRights♿️ #STEM #SPED #Books📖 #Nurses⚕️
StarWars / StarTrek🖖 Sci-Fi🛸👽
Constitution📜 #Antifa 🗽DEI
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Award-winning Author | 250K Books sold | Ava & Carol Detective Agency | Quest Chasers | Kids Murder Mystery Club | Ripley Kool & the Investigators | Coffee House Sleuths
My books: https://cutt.ly/1e852C3q
#MGLit #Kidlit #Author #writer
#screenwriter, #playwright, #author, #WGAw member, #DogLover. New romantic comedy novel CANINE CUSTODY out 9/22/26!💙📚 🌈
Experience cool science while swimming with warrior mermaids, sprinting with a wolf shifter, or flying with a stone gargoyle in a race to protect the Earth from evil Fae.
https://andieholman.com
Disabled 29yo library assistant, philomath, embroiderer, phytophile & bibliomaniac 📚
Cheating death with Adrenal Insufficiency, CPTSD & nerve pain ♿️
Born to be saved by the Doctor 💫
Review website is currently regenerating ⚙️
www.writingwithwolves.co.uk
Devourer of books and writer of speculative fiction for kids and adults.
Mentee @thegeacademy.
Not on here much.
Gardener of thoughts and things. Into cooking, music, art, architecture, politics, sewing, and life drawing. Avid reader—especially fiction by women.
🧚♀️ I write chapter books for young dreamers like me who love fairies and friendship.
💖 No villains - just sparkle, heart, and adventure.
📚💙 Ages 6–9
www.fairyacademybooks.com
Digital creator, parent managed account.
The free directory of UK children's authors, poets & illustrators offering #VirtualAuthorVisits to schools at https://virtualauthors.co.uk/
(managed by @loutreleaven)
Children’s writer from Bristol. Debut novel The Feathered Book out now, published by @everywithwords.bsky.social
https://www.everythingwithwords.com/authors/charlie-nutbrown/
Welcome to The Faerie Folk podcast - the audio tour that takes you across the United Kingdom, stopping off at all the magical and mystical places along the way. Join me for retellings of classic folktales, immersive soundscapes and UK travel tips. 🧚🏽♀️💚
B.T. Skylark writes stories for the quiet ones, the different ones, the dreamers. Neurodivergent, LGBTQ+, and based on the South Coast, he believes magic belongs to those who never quite fit in.
Manager of #EarlyLiteracy Programs & Special Initiatives @ Brooklyn Public Library | #KidLit Writer @ RISE X Penguin Workshop | LJ Mover and Shaker 2020 |
Author, illustrator & nature photographer.
#SCBWI | #12x12PB | #PBChat '21 mentee
Rep'd by Elisa Houot at The Seymour Agency
- Children’s author
- WILD & Me, in the Middle (Owlet Press)
- Golden Egg Academy alumni 💛
- Blogging about London, family & books
www.3littlebuttons.com 📚
Writes epic and contemporary fantasy novels along with varied shorter fiction. She/her. All opinions absolutely my own. For more, see www.julietemckenna.com
The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. Fighting for a fairer industry since 1884. #societyofauthors
Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training https://linktr.ee/societyofauthors
Writer of Where the World Turns Wild, Between Sea and Sky, Beyond the Frozen Horizon.
SFF enthusiast, hobby-collector, blogger, shouter-at-the-internet. Editor at Ignyte and Hugo winner Nerds of a Feather, along with reviews elsewhere. 2025 Hugo Fan Writer finalist. All links here: https://linktr.ee/roseanna.pendlebury (she/her).
Author. Hugo, Astounding, and World Fantasy Award winner; Clarke and Le Guin finalist. Rep: Kurestin Armada at Root Literary.
Out now: THE INCANDESCENT - https://tinyurl.com/theincandescent
Vancouver, Canada 🇨🇦 & Oxfordshire, England 🇬🇧
I love flying 🛩️ reading 📚 & ice cream🍦 - just not at the same time.
Co-founder & co-ordinator: the reading miniClub - for junior chemo patients 🩺.
Book reviews 📝 on https://fly276.wixsite.com/mysite
I’m a chronically ill artist, writer and poet living in beautiful Orkney with a passion for folklore, myth and magic. Visit my website: www.ellenforkin.co.uk
By day, heritage consultant based in the North of England. By night, writer of novels & short stories, seeking representation. Shortlisted Yeovil Literary Prize 2024. www.joscott-heritage.co.uk joscottwrites.uk She/her
Illustrator; writer of various things;
former #SCBWI IC and ARA;
co-host of #kidlitchat, Tuesdays at 9E/6P;
art and books at bonnieadamson.com
Author of:
Bosco and the Bees
Mirror and the Bobcat
Somewhere In Kakadu
Details at:
boscoandthebees.com
Actor/writer (Writers Guild award winner)
#BBC #BigFinish #Unforgotten
#BraveTheDark stars Jared Harris 94% 🍅🍿
The Young Testament: a kids'-eye view of Jesus!
"quirky, funny, immensely enjoyable" MG books
The Scotch Play: histfic
📚💙
saltedlightly.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)
I write queer stories & edit books sometimes https://sflayzell.com/
Buy Cottonopolis, a MG set in 1840s Manchester, shortlisted for Little Rebels https://sflayzell.com/cottonopolis/
Views mine, contact via website
Talks, writes, teaches. "The Ha-ha" & "The Ends" might make you laugh. Patreon https://patreon.com/Tomtalksdisabillity?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=creatorshare_fan&utm_content=join_link
Writer
Poetry: Forward Prize & BOTN nominee
100+ poems in Agenda, Stand, Poetry Salzburg, Chiron Review, IS&T etc & on BBC
Walking at Night finalist
Charles Causley & 2 Bridport shortlists
Magna Carta Comp (3rd)
Prose: Orwell Prize/Bridport Novel longlists
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.
NF #PB Author, MOON TREE 🌙🌲(2022, Reycraft Books) & M IS FOR MASON JAR (2025, Familius). #STEM. #SCBWI. Crystal Kite Award. Rep: Michelle Z. Jackson, Jackson Literary. She/Her.
#KidLitEvents calendar is available at CarolynBFraiser.com/KidLit
children's book author, Chinese bilingual teacher, #SCBWI #12X12
https://linktr.ee/joannaszetowrites
YA debut A BEAUTIFUL, TERRIBLE THING @dfbstoryhouse.bsky.social Oct 25 . writer & editor . fiction & nonfiction . lover of wilderness, kindness & sunshine . winner DFB Search for a Storyteller 24 & Wells Fest of Lit Book for Children 23 . RLF Fellow 24-26
Author of SCAVENGERS, THE MEMORY THIEVES, FURTHERMOOR and THIRST. Vivid, unruly fiction for older children and teens.
www.darrensimpsonwrites.co.uk
Author of Gertie Goose: A Heartwarming Lesson of Love and Listening. More in the pipeline!
Author & Illustrator
Middle Grade Debut Mammoth Rider published 2026
✏️ Children's Writer
📚 Teacher
🎉 Rep'd by Rachael Davis-Featherstone at Creative Roots Studio
Children's Writer & Poet,
Winner Mo Prize 2023, #AWritingChance and a London Writers Award.
Highly Commended #fabprize
Rep: Ludo Cinelli @ Eve White Literary Agency
Children's Author.
Somewhat Scottish, London based, owned by a Westie, crisp fan, she/her.
Oh, and "one of children’s fiction’s most accomplished authors"
according to @Waterstones.
Agent: jhare@theagency.co.uk / Events: @AuthorsAloudUK
Writing wee stories about Belfast and other bits and pieces. Bath Novella-in-Flash S/L 2025. Words in places like @theDublinReview.bsky.social @thecitronreview.bsky.social @mooncityreview.bsky.social @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social @fictivedream.bsky.social
YA Writer, photographer, producer
The Last Death Poet - April 2026
Repped by Silvia Molteni at PFD
Middle grade. Hiking enthusiast.
Miracle (Ottaviano/LBYR)
Title tbd (2026, Ottaviano/LBYR)
Rep: Andrea Cascardi
SCBWI AZ ARA
https://linktr.ee/kchowrites
Osteoporosis nurse. Writer for children, middle grade adventures. Shortlisted Wells literature festival 2022. GoldenEgg. Write Magic.
Early Years teacher and picture book writer. Shortlisted in Write Mentor and Searchlight competitions and winner of a Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award in 2022. Debut PB - The Dangerous Pet Lover’s Guide to Dragons - published July 2025 with Bloomsbury.
Award winning author, nature nerd, raging feminist. Debut YA Fantasy Blood of Gods and Girls published by PRH in 2026. #ya #kidlit #fantasy #feminist #nature
In June 2025, Bloomsbury will publish The Ultimate Guide to Editing Your Novel: A revolutionary approach to transform your writing. An editorial process I developed over my many years as an editor, author, university lecturer and mentor.
KidLit author. Makes comics. Loves dogs.
My website: https://www.candygourlay.co.uk/
My new blog https://houseofprocrastination.substack.com/
My instagram: https://www.instagram.com/candygourlay/
Children's Author, Filipino-Canadian
I write stories for kids and kids at heart 💗
analene.com
Author, journalist, foodie (MasterChef 2019), publisher. Debut children's book Mister Mishkins' Apothecary making gentle waves around the world. Book II out 8.8.25. Also publishes under Adelaide Halsey. Welcome to my bluesky world.
Professional cheerleader; books publicist, consultant (children’s, YA, crossover, charity and arts), reader, writer, story-obsessed. (NDPR, The Pocket Publicist)
Author. Writing children's fiction and poetry. The Shell Keepers out June 2025 with @chickenhousebooks.bsky.social #BCNA winner 2022. Rep'd by Lauren Gardner, BLM Agency. Trulyjohnston.co.uk
Writer, PhD student. KidLit geek, CatDad, and proud member of the Guardian-reading, tofu-eating, wokerati. I don't even like tofu.
Writer based in Scotland. YA and MG mostly. UV 2020 and Scottish Book Trust New Writer’s Award 2017. Dotty about my spotty dog.
Writer, bookworm
She/her
https://www.clareharlow.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/clareharlow
Picture Book Writer 🙃 She/ Her 😊
📚 #WMCNA ‘23 (Shortlist) 📚#Searchlight Writing for Children Awards ‘23 (Longlist) 📚#PictureBookPrize '23 (LL) /PBP'22 (SL) 📚 #WMCNA '21 (LL) 📚
Award-winning writer of novels for adults and children.
The Red Tunic, The Mudlark Mysteries, Icarus & Velvet, Gangster School, Evolution.
Mudlark, tutor, history & animal lover.
Scottish writer and artist. Follows waggy tails on tea and biscuit trails to stories with crumbs of truth. #BeKind
Author: Villager, 1983, Everything Will Swallow You. Shirley Jackson Horror Writing Award winner who doesn’t write horror. "Hilarious" - Stephen Fry. "Made me laugh out loud" - David Sedaris. "Arrived damaged." - Amazon reviewer https://www.tom-cox.com
We advocate for school libraries and promote quality reading & learning opportunities for all children in all schools. We support school librarians and all those responsible for school library provision. Become a member: https://bit.ly/3BzonAm #BookSky
Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning and USA Today best-selling author, narrator, and professional puppeteer. Also has a talking cat. Latest title: Apprehension.
All things books! Everything with Words, prizewinning indie publisher of children's, YA and adult literary fiction. For a browse of our books :
https://www.everythingwithwords.com/ #KidLitUk #Fiction #books #illustrators #art
Professional Drawer (not furniture). Author / Illustrator of 'The Mythmakers' • 'The Faithful Spy’ & others. Professor of Art at WashU, Chair MFA Illus. & Visual Culture
Sharing and celebrating the endpapers of children’s literature.
Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doc
Kids:
Minou Moonshine 2023/ Sam Singh 2024 @zephyrbooks.bsky.social
Poetry:
Empirical 2026
@thebraag.bsky.social
Siren 2022 @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
A Terrible Thing 2020
Bad Betty Press
https://linktr.ee/gitaralleigh
21yrs
Book Count: 1618
TBR: 5578
2026 Reading Challenge: 10/200
Official account of The Folklore Podcast. 2 million downloads worldwide. Created by folklorist and author Mark Norman. Find us online at http://www.thefolklorepodcast.com
Film/TV rep: Past Preservers Author for various publishers
⋆Queer Southern Novelist 🌿
⋆✒️WTMP & 🩵 SmoochPit Mentor
⋆Rep: @keiralekseii.bsky.social at Azantian
⋆Grad Student/Them in STEM 🌈⚕️
https://linktr.ee/RowanBrightonBrown
Scottish children's fantasy writer and purveyor of eight-year-old humor.
Registered Charity No: 1203418. Patrons: Michael Rosen, Joanne Harris.
Preserving traditional heritage and folklore materials for the future, and delivering these through open access. Focus on at-risk heritage.
Online at www.folklorelibrary.com
Author DEVIL’S BREATH-BBC Between The Covers book club pick, HELL’S BELLS and BELLA DONNA Pub’d by @bwpublishing.
Ngaio Marsh Award double category finalist.
Rep'd by Pontas Agency
Insta: jilljohnsonwrites
Info: http://jilljohnsonwrites.com
Writer of poetry/fiction for children/adults | Fiction: Times/CH LL | Poems: Dirigible, Tyger Tyger, Little Thoughts, The Toy | SHINE, streetcake, Audi Locus | Pushcart nom '26 | he/him
#MG #PB writer
Co-RA Southern Breeze @SCBWI
#Valentiny '26 (Finalist)
#50PreciousWords '25 HM
#WTMP '24 mentee
#FallWritingFrenzy '24 HM, '25 (F)
#Halloweensie '24 (F), '25 HM
Susanna Hill Holiday Writing Contest '24 (F)
2024 Terry Kay Prize for Fiction
YLG London is a CILIP volunteer-led community. Notification of events & activities will be posted here. Our communications are not CILIP policy.
Website: https://www.cilip.org.uk/members/group_content_view.asp?group=201316&id=687661
We love books, dogs in bookshops, and customers who laugh at our jokes
Primary English Consultant, children's book blog, author of the Developing Reading Comprehension Skills series, Chair of Governors, Girlguiding, Canadian in the UK
Novelist. Poet. Reader.
🏺OVID’S HEROINES 🍼INCARNATION 🐇FIERCE BAD RABBITS 🔮 DELPHI 🏰THE UNTAMEABLES 🧚🏾THE MODERN FAIRIES, ✍️LIVES OF THE FEMALE POETS, etc. 🌊THE OTHERNAUTS coming 2026
Substack: Clare’s Poetry Circle
The UK's best-loved book awards for children & young people, celebrating outstanding writing & illustration; judged by librarians @cilip.bsky.social #Carnegies2026
https://carnegies.co.uk/
Other socials 👉 https://linktr.ee/carnegiemedals
Writer. Reader. Former deputy editor @Parents Magazine. Co-author of ROXIE IN COLOR, Candlewick Press, 2026.
Author of THE NOTWITCHES and THE NOTWITCHES: PRISON BREAK. All the links for ordering can be found at garypanton.co.uk/books/
Represented by Rachel Mann at CAA.
📍Perth, Scotland
🌐 garypanton.co.uk
🇨🇦 Kidlit author & illustrator. Illus books by Judy Blume, Michael Ian Black, others. Current goal: debut MG author 🤞🏽
📚 I WANT TO READ *ALL* THE BOOKS
🎨 I'M BUSY (w/ Michael Ian Black, 2026/02/24)
DebbieOhi.com @work.debbieohi.com
