#Kidlit PB/MG writer and enthusiast
Parent
Bunny person
#Scbwi
Nature
Foodie
NYT bestselling author of middle grade books. Latest release: A SPLIT SECOND.✨💜 janaemarks.com
Author of bestselling true crime books Deadly Heist, Murder on Birchleaf Drive, Evil at Lake Seminole, and Extreme Punishment StevenBEpstein.com #truecrime
Author, Singer, all things ART. Lover of my sweet husband. Yoga, travel, love being alive!
Lyrical picture books about science and nature:
ONE DAY THIS TREE WILL FALL
A STONE IS A STORY
I AM WE: A STORY OF CROW SURVIVIAL ('25)
Kindergarten teacher🥰🩷
Mom to 3 girls🩷🩷🩷
Amazon wishlist-
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/84F1DYJ5JZHY?ref_=wl_share
Lakeshore wishlist-
https://www.lakeshorelearning.com/registries/registry-details/?registryId=kOGJ383EtSG6okoDxtu3xg%3D%3D
Author for adults and kids. My picture books are LEO + LEA and ELBERT IN THE AIR. My memoir is HOLDING SILVAN.
Psychologist living in Philadelphia from the UK.
Gill Evans author of The Anxious Therapist and Wordler. Honourable Mention for my book by Hay House.
Go to my website Anxioustherapist.com for £1 or $1 kindle book. Download kindle app free.
📚🍎 2nd grade from Cali
Supplies = smiles & learning
Any help means the world!
https://linktr.ee/MrsRodriguez3
Amazon Wishlist:
https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/TLVRBIF97D13?ref_=wl_share
Welcome to the Independent Author Network at Bluesky. Promoting and Supporting Indie Authors since 2010. Our Book of the Year Awards program features $6,000 in cash prizes. #IAN1
Layne Johnson is a picture book writer/aspiring illustrator. #SCBWI. Humor and Heart|STEAM and SEL|ADHD #amquerying
Website: https://laynejohnsonkidsbooks.com/
Dad. Author of the Cosmic Collisions books. Astrophysicist and Citizen Science fanatic @nasa. www.marckuchner.com
Bradfordian actor, filmmaker, and author of 📚 My Ego Screwed My Acting Career, Based on a True Story, and 📚 Bradford, Eh? — a nostalgic snapshot of '70s, '80s, ’90s Bradford.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068791128
Sculptor of ridiculously difficult to package porcelain artwork. You’ll see coral, skulls, nudibranchs, moons, mushrooms, lichen and comets, all with complicated textures, some with rainbow colours. Bristol, UK
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ally. Free Palestine!
lisaseaurchin.co.uk
Writer of #picturebooks and #MG for kids. Seeking representation. Member of #SCBWI and Storyteller Academy. 2023 Kids' Choice Kidlit Writing Contest Finalist. Proud father/supporter of a nonbinary child and a child with cerebral palsy.
#KidLit PB writer. Dole Whip lover. Autism advocate. Creator of Around the Forest & The Forest Awards.
✨ Seeking new rep! ✨
Member of SCBWI | PB Party 2025 Finalist 👻 THE GIRL IN THE WINDOW
⭐️ DARK SKIES ('25, LITTLE PRESS)
https://linktr.ee/lindseyhobsonauthor
Kidlit Author. Word juggler. Awkwardly funny. Embraces weird. #50PreciousWords Winner #KidsChoice Winner #PBParty 2023 HM #PBChat Mentorship 2021 #Madness!Poetry #SCBWI #12x12
Children's Author (THE JEALOUS LITTLE MUNCHKIN ‘24, ‘22)
‘25 Honorable Mention #50PreciousWords #kidlit | alidemoro.com | Member #12x12challenge, #scbwi 📚 | Focus on SEL, Lyricism, Stories with heart.
https://linktr.ee/alidemoro
I am the host of the Reading With Your Kids Podcast. Our mission is to help families grow closer through reading!
Author/Illustrator Looking for representation.
Artist
Author
12x12
SCBWI Southern Breeze Region Mentee 2022
www.picturebookisland.com
Picture Book Author. Owner of Coyote Kids, a secondhand clothing and bookstore for kids in Albany, CA. It's all about the kids!
3rd grade teacher in a Title I school. #clearthelist
Classroom wish list - https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/8W5GVA9DKPAQ?ref_=wl_share
Children's Author & Teacher/SENCo
Winner #ChuckleChallenge 2024
Winner #springflingkidlit 2023
Mentor #WriteMentor 2023 & 2025
Owned by a rescue dog. Adored by an amazing man who doesn't (much) mind being called by my last name.
Cali girl living in Georgia.
Neurospicy PB/MG kidlit writer #SCBWI, #12x12PB.
writershour.com Host 🧜🏻♀️
All em dashes are my own—
👨🎓Professor, 📚author of 100 books on drwho💫starwars✨outlander #sfwa🚀 #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://rowman.com/Action/SERIES/_/LEXJSF/Jewish-Science-Fiction-and-Fantasy
🙋🏼♀️kidlit author 👩🏼💻 proud Mama Bear 🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 “Though she be but little, she is fierce.” #PitchMe 23 winner #PBParty Honorable Mention 2024
#kidlitchat happens every Tuesday night at 9E/6P, co-hosted by @bonnieadamson.com and @gregpincus.bsky.social. The topic is posted here as each chat begins, as well as any important chat news.
Banner art by Brian Kirby: @boringstorybook.com
Children’s Book Author. timmccannabooks.com
#kidlit writer rep'd by Taylor Martindale Kean at Full Circle Literary
#SCBWI #12x12PB #CTC #neurodivergent
Kidlit reviewer on https://www.instagram.com/johannapeytonauthor/. www.johannapeyton.com
Hi, I'm Charles Anthony Reyna, Abstract Visual Artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. My inspiration comes from nature as well as urban areas. My artist website is charlesreynaart.etsy.com.
Freelance Editor (picture books, MG, YA) • Children's Book Author
www.allisonwortche.com
📘 BEAR IN THE AIR — coming 9/16/25
📘 RUBY AND THE ITSY-BITSY ICKY BUG
📘 OLIVER’S LOLLIPOP
#freelanceeditor #childrensbookauthor
Local little monster. Living in society. Comics and more fun stuff.
🌟 2025 #PBRisingStars Mentee
🎨 #kidlit author-illustrator
📚 Former children's bookseller and school librarian
😴 Current tired mom
🤓 Self-taught and still self-teaching
Represented by Marissa Brown at Pippin Properties
brookebaum.com
Reader, writer, book collector, and all-around biblophile.
Learning to channel the soft whisper of the muses.
Autodidact.
INFJ
#WritingCommunity
#Shelley #Keats #Tennsyon #HartCrane #Stevens #Whitman #Dickinson #Bloom.
Vegan FTA
Good vibes only. ~ ~ ~
📍 Nashville
Rebuilding after leaving Twitter!
Querying PB!
Mom, Picture Book Writer, Application Development, Gardner, Hiker, Dog Lover, she/her #kidlit #PBPitch #SCBWIMidsouth #amquerying #writingcommunity 🌞
www.waldohousebooks.com
good vibes fabrication🪶👩🌾⚡️👩🎨🌱✏️📗💌
kidlit and PB lover
SCBWI and 12x12challenge member
https://www.instagram.com/erinerje?igsh=MTc0MDI5cWhqamtjbw%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
Author of 16 📚 including ANCESTOR, MENTOR and the GREAT GIMMELMANS.
MILES IN TIME/TIME FIXERS out now.
Screenwriter and publisher of Fringe Press.
Native New Yorker. LeeMatthewGoldberg.com
An independent children’s book publisher 📚
Where imagination meets environmentalism🌍
Based out of Los Angeles ☀️
Founded by author Josh Oaktree 🌳
www.oaktreecomics.com/link-tree
Retired SLP. Kidlit fanatic. Unapologetic nerd. Publishing tech startup founder on a mission to empower aspiring kidlit authors. 🇨🇦
https://made.live/newsletter
Picture book writer, member of SCBWI, Storyteller Academy, Journey to Kidlit. #author, #authors, #querying, #kidlit, #picturebooks
Stay @ Home Mom of 2 | Homeschool Teacher | Extreme Multitasker | Aspiring PB Author | 12x12
Kidlit Author, Presenter, Educator, Imagineer & Foodie.
LITTLE MEDUSA'S HAIR DO-LEMMA ('21) & plethora of kidlit Magazine articles.
Active member in 12x12, SCBWI, Courage 2 Create, Rate Your Story & more. Co-creator of SunWriteFun.
Author of Doll Trouble (Clavis, 2026) and Goat's Boat Won't Float (Little Press, 2024) '23 & '22 #PBParty finalist '21 #SCBWI Ann Paul Award #Kidlit #12x12 Author of Unraveling Fairy Tales: Learning To Live Happily Ever After http://amzn.com/1734768819
Aspiring picture book author, writer of fiction short stories, mom to 3 wild boys
RYS Member, SCBWI Carolinas, Foothills Writer’s Guild
Children's Book Author~MG~PB~SCBWI~Librarian~Art~Music~Ocean www.marciastrykowski.com
#Kidlit author - following the child, seeking rep, Montessorian, #SCBWI #12x12PB #writingcommunity #PBSummit ‘22 #PBRisingStars ‘23 Mentee, can make you a cake 🫘
Redesigned Educator • Learning Specialist Edge•U • Author/Artist/Creative Soul • Floridian • #Eduguardian • Grace-Giver • Forgiven Hot Mess • Optimistic Originator @ impartedjoy.com
Children’s Illustrator. Cat Lover. Avid Gardener.
You can find my portfolio at http://www.suzannebeaky.com
I'm the author of 80+ books and an established editor who has helped more than 400 authors achieve their publishing dreams. My books include writing guidebooks, a novel, children's books and more. Visit inventingrealityediting.com
Writer currently working on a MG novel. Mom to a ND son and a trans daughter. Ally. Lover of horror & true crime media, the Food Network, tattoos, and pop culture Christmas ornaments. 🇨🇦🏳️⚧️♾️
She/her
Storyteller | Adventurer | Coffee & Almond Croissant Enthusiast | Picture Book Author | #12x12PB | #SCBWI
Kidlit writer exploring how humans grow and change through relationships and connections with nature. kamillamilligan.com
Psych prof, in a tide pool if possible, picture book author, excels at typos. 🦑 IDIC 🖖 they/them www.meghanwilsonduff.com
They're concentration camps. No one should by okay with them existing. Commercial genAI is a tool of fascism. No war.
Kidlit Author | SCBWI | 12x12PB | EC SPED Parapro |Disability mom & advocate🤟| Native Michigander✋
Mum to twin musicians. Wife to entrepreneur. Writer to all who need a self belief booster.
Currently seeking PB representation.
#SCBWI 📕 #networkisa 🎥
#PB Author of BEA’S BALIKBAYAN BOX OF TREASURES '25 with @freespiritbooks.bsky.social | #12x12PB | #SCBWI | #Growyourwriting Challenge Host | 🇵🇭🇺🇸 #filtheshelves
Rep'd by @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social of CMA
Author to upcoming PB: THE SUBSTI-TOOTH (Lawley Publishing, 2026) #12x12PB #kidlit
picture book writer. mom. geologist. environmentalist. gardener. jigsaw puzzler. #SCBWI #kidlit 🏳️🌈
Co-Assistant Regional Advisor, SCBWI NY: West/Central
PBParty2025 Finalist!
www.caitdarfler.com
Rep'd by Joyce Sweeney @joycekay.bsky.social
PB author
🦙 ALPACAS MAKE TERRIBLE LIBRARIANS (Out now!)
🦉OWLS MAKE TERRIBLE TEACHERS (Gnome Road, April 2026)
12x12 PB, SCBWI, PBSoar, 24CarrotWriting
rep'd by @elisahouot.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/kristimahoneybooks
#kidlit writer | SCBWI | PB Rising Stars Runner-up ‘23 | Kidlit Chuckle Challenge winner ‘24 | Kid’s Choice Winner ‘23 | Kidlit Vibes winner ‘22 & ‘23 | 50 Precious Words Winner ‘22 | #amquerying
Creative Writer/Teacher/Theater Critic/ Animal Lover, Jewish
PBParty’21 HM, 12x12, SCBWI,#MightyKidlit
STEM Advocate|Picture Book Author|Retired Educator|Proud mom of 3 sons|Married to super guy|Packers Fan|Rep’d by @LitAgentKatieM.bsky.social
collazocove.com
Former Pre-K teacher ➡ SAHM to 6 yo & 3 yo twins |kidlit author
#SCBWI
#holidaywritingcontest HM '22
#50preciouswords HM '23
#ChuckleChallenge Winner'24 &'25
www.nicolegarnett.com
Author of Sydney Taylor Notable award-winning middle grade novel, THINGS THAT SHIMMER, plus PBs and YAs. Midwestern. I travel for Bruuuuce.
Children’s author -The Hopeful Hodag - writing to bring joy one story at a time. #SCBWI #12x12PB
Kidlit writer. Foster mom. Love to travel. Sometimes calm. #12x12PB #scbwi
https://gingerburkebooks.com
Poet, Picture Book author, and Nature educator. IF A BUMBLE BEE LANDS ON YOUR TOE, Picnic Heist. BUTTERFLY SEA is available for pre-order with Tielmour Press, #SCBWI #Edusky #CANSCAIP #CWILLBC
🦋 🐝 🍃
www.booksbycindy.com
https://linktr.ee/Cynthiamackey
Writer of all things - Picture books, YA, and Screenplays.
Rom-com enthusiast.
Mom of 4 surviving on coffee, dreams, and discarded sandwich crusts.
Children's author, Child and Family Psychologist, Resilience Rounds Facilitator-Methodist Hospital, mother of boy/girl twins, and safari enthusiast. Sponsors elephant orphans, breeds Monarch butterflies, and raises pugs!
KidLit writer/illustrator. #SCBWI & #12x12PB. Winner #springflingkidlit 2023 http://instagram.com/jmebills / https://jamiebills.com/
Award-winning poet. Picture book writer, mostly in rhyme. Can't help it. #SCBWI
"At the moment of laughter, there's nothing wrong in the world." ~WB
Writer | illustrator | Iraqi-Chaldean † | SCBWI
Rep: Jordan Hamessley at JABberwocky Lit Agency
www.sonyaafnan.com/portfolio
Kidlit PB author, proud mom of a nonbinary & a cis-son, Broadway fanatic, LGBTQ+ ally, craft-a-holic, blog: From the Edge of the Rainbow
Picture book writer seeking representation, teacher, game player, husband, father, western NY inhabitant, NJ shore vacationer, gardener, bike rider
Writer of crime fiction and books for young readers of all ages. Most recent crime novel is "Woman, Missing" (HQ). Love reading. Edit part-time. Owner (servant) of a cat.
Epistemic Literary's new adventure for a young audience!
Our all ages eMag will extend the conversation to a younger audience by exploring similar themes.
Issue 1: https://epistemiclit.com/nimblewitlit/taking-a-stand/
www.EpistemicLit.com/nimblewitlit
Picture Book Otter. Former sea author. Curmudgeon. SCBWI #12x12PB
Author with a passion for growing hearts, minds, and green things. Writer and resident trouble-maker/puzzle crafter for Mythulu eMag. ADHD, Friend-shaped, Momma-bear.
Mama to my little besties👫
Wife to my big bestie👩❤️👨
Bluesky newbie 🦋
Interior designer by day🛋
#KidLit author by dreams✨
#SCBWI member📚
48 books, mostly novels for #MG or #YA. #Holocaust, #Historical #Fantasy #Paranormal #PB
#SCBWI #CANSCAIP #TWUC #PEN #KIDLIT
https://carolmatas.com
Pre-published kidlit writer in Vermont.
School librarian by day.
SCBWI member.
Neurodivergent, Swiftie, musician, cat lover.
-mom of two boys | database queen at family-owned fire protection company-
-book lover, reader, collector | fairy tale obsessor | puzzler-
-kidlit writer-
Paint | Write | Teach | Read :||
https://www.amazon.com/author/andreahellman
https://www.andreahellman.com/
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8302-589X
https://multiliteracy.net/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreahellman/
@andreahellmanart
@dunabooksllc
Author - Illustrator ~ SEEKING REPRESENTATION
Mom of three grown-up boys | House Portrait Artist | Educator
#12x12PB #SCBWI #kidlitart #kidlit
https://www.lisaleefurness.com/
https://www.lisaleefurness.com/ornaments
🌺🇬🇷 Pre-pub #KidLit author, disability advocate, library board member, former teacher, optimistic realist #SCBWI #CBA #12X12 #50PreciousWords Winner ‘22 #PBParty Participant, she/her 🌺🇬🇷
📝Children's Book Author👇
📖THE ONLY ME
📖STELLA'S BRAVE VOICE
📖PETUNIA THE PERFECTIONIST
📖SATURDAYS WITH GRAMPS
#SCBWI member #12x12
https://marissabader.com/links
Children's book writer (A WAY WITH WORDS '22 and SEARCHING FOR SLEEP '22), curriculum designer, and mama of three! She/Her
stacyburch.com
Illustrator, aspiring author/illustrator, graphic designer, and occasional portrait artist 💜
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.”
Writer of kidlit and teacher of adorable firsties. Member of @SCBWI and @12x12 Mets fan, empty nester, and lover of dogs (especially the one named Mookie Mozer). Co-Regional Advisor New England SCBWI.
Kidlit Writer (MG & PB), SCBWI & 12x12 Member, Fan of all things book related … libraries are my happy place. Dog lover, Shelter Volunteer 🐾🐶
Hello. My name is Angela Calabrese. I write stories for children that generate laughter and offer hope. I'm a reading specialist, word nerd, and kid at heart.
Teacher. Wife. Mom. PB Writer. 📚+☕️=❤️
#SCBWI #12x12PB
Mom, marketer and Children’s Book author in search of new representation.
bit.ly/jeanettefazzarijones
Meatballs for Grandpa (Two Lions Press, 2024)
Ava's Chalk (Ever Imagine Press, 2025)
Duck, Duck, Groove (The Little Press, 2026)
Author. Teacher. Baker. Former ninja.
Seeking new rep due to the sad & sudden closure of BRLA.
📚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
A community pitching event for short stories! By authors, for authors, for fun, for vibes. Run by @hannahhzhangg.bsky.social and @thevalrobles.bsky.social !!
