Layne Johnson is a picture book writer/aspiring illustrator. #SCBWI. Humor and Heart|STEAM and SEL|ADHD #amquerying
Website: https://laynejohnsonkidsbooks.com/
Director of School Libraries and Co-host of Library Exchange podcast.
Illustrator and educator in Brooklyn. Instructor at SVA’s BFA Illustration department.
https://www.oliverallison.com/
Literary Manager with Martin Literary Management | Reader | Writer | Dreamer | #SCBWI #InkedVoices| rep'd by @joycekay.bsky.social with the Seymour Agency
#2 Most Followed Library in the USA!
Current Challenge, Peeps!!:
https://summitco.librarycalendar.com/event/peeps-diorama-contest-15460
Author of books for kids and young at heart. Repped by Rachel Orr, Prospect Literary. Samanthamclark.com | Samanthamclark.substack.com | Bsky.app/profile/samanthamclark.com
Kidlit Author seeking representation. Winner of #SunWriteFun'24, '23, and #Sun'22, HM: #Halloweensie21, #Spring Fling22, #50Precious HM 22, 23. 12x12, STA, CBA, RYS
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
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www.booksbycindy.com
https://linktr.ee/Cynthiamackey
Bibliophile, writer, reader, needle-felter, cat lover
Tolkien fan, can write in elf
Former editor of Stories for Children and Halo Publishing
interested in books art movies science and other cool kids' stuff. #kidlit #scbwi #amwriting
Picture book author, librarian, educator.
🍼 MAZEL TOES (‘25)
🌔THE SCHLEMIEL KIDS SAVE THE MOON (‘24)
🎃 PUMPKIN SHABBAT (‘28)
Rep: Rebecca Angus @ Howland Literary
http://www.barbakoffbooks.com
A Wandering Teacher uses #watercolor, #ink, & #Krita.
It is super effective!
https://karinwandererart.creator-spring.com/
https://ko-fi.com/karinwanderer
She/Her. No AI/NFT/Fascists
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.
Author of kids’ horror fiction and a voracious reader, watcher, and player of stories! Contact: ivg@eml.cc
#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
Author of poetry, THE INVISIBLE HEROINE 📚 Poet 📖 PB & MG/YA writer 📚 Spoonie #StillsDisease #SJIA ♿️ 💖 Dog Mom ❤kidlit, art, crafts❤ #12X12 PB scholarship '23 ✍️ 🌪️Tornado survivor🙏🫶
ESL Teacher. Mom. Travel. Dance. Strawberry ice cream. #Kidlit Author, repped by @KaitlynLeann17 SCBWI 12x12 http://HannahLorenzoBooks.com
Artist, author, journalist
@syracuseu broadcast journo alum
@vermontstateu MFA studio arts
#scbwi New for 2025: #12x12PB amykolbnoyes.com
Book, nature and young people lover, publishing nonfiction picture books and writing whatever else I want. Former Creative Writing, Composition, and Survey of Children's Lit prof at Miami Dade College, now writing full time.
Children’s Author, Former Farm Girl, Boy Mom, THE TRACTOR SQUAD & THE TRACTOR SQUAD SAVES THE DAY (Marble Press ‘24 & ‘25)
Rep’d by Stephanie Hansen at Metamorphosis Literary Agency
Probably off on a Colorado hike somewhere. Author of Get a Clue & MG mysteries Midnight at the Barclay Hotel & Daybreak on Raven Island (Viking), Double Vision trilogy (Harper). MWA, SinC, SCBWI member.
Mom of 2 toddler boys, poet and picture book writer, former ESL/bilingual teacher #12x12PB #PBparty finalist #50preciouswords winner
PB author of Teddy Lou, Bell Guru. Mom of two young readers. SCBWI member.
#Kidlit Author
Latest: A Flicker of Hope /Un Aleteo de Esperanza 🦋
Upcoming: Apapacho Love '26
Forest en Familia '26
Row Sow Grow '26
Hasta Pronto is a Promise '27
linktr.ee/cynthiaharmony
#Author of 14 picture books (I Am Smoke) & many #MG, #YA & adult short stories - #fantasy, #scifi, #horror. #Editor of 10 #anthologies (Combat Monsters). henryherz.com
Repped by @casahasegawa.bsky.social
Children's Writer. Avid Reader. Repped by James McGowan & Sophie Sheumaker, BookEnds Literary. Member of @steamteambooks.bsky.social & @kl4gm.bsky.social.
2022 Newbery Honoree, Walter Award, Golden Kite winner. Doctor, author of MG & PB, fiction & nonfiction, prose & poetry. Pro-democracy, pro-reproductive freedom, anti-book bans.
Rep: Brent Taylor
www.RajaniLaRocca.com
**Taking a Break from Social Media**
Children's Author
Digging for Dinosaurs
They Work: Honey Bees, Nature's Pollinators
bookshop.org/shop/JuneSmalls
www.junesmalls.com
Award-winning author and copywriter. Write. Bake. Repeat. MOO HOO and BAA HAA (Scholastic, 2024 & 2025), A HAT FOR HOUSE (Putnam, 2024), ONCE UPON A TAIL (Abrams, 2026) & more! Rep: @jmcgowanbks.
Children’s picture book author repped by Laura Rennert at Andrea Brown Literary Agency
tammisauer.com
MG author who loves oceans, kraken, cephalopods | new MG: ⚽️ STEALING THE SCORE (World Cup mystery)| next: 🐕 NOW THAT WE DON’T TALK| sci-fi: 🦀 HANA HSU AND THE GHOST CRAB NATION | co-run Kidlit411 | website: enjoyingplanetearth.com
NYT Bestselling/Geisel-winning GRATEFUL #kidlit author! (If YOU’RE a l’il weird too, we’re gonna be pals! 😄!) NEWEST 📚: 🦇🐈🐀BAT, CAT & RAT #4: 🍂A GREAT FALL🍂 and #3: ⛱️THE BEACH DAY⛱️; 🐥DUCKIE & SNAPS🐊 #1: WE CANNOT BE FRIENDS; etc.! And MORE 📚 soon! 😄!
Children’s Author. Devout Californian.
Rep'd by @jenrofe of ABLA
www.devpetty.com
Kidlit Author/Illustrator
☔️ SOAKED!
🚗 ANIMALS GO VROOM!
🐻 WOMBATS ARE PRETTY WEIRD
🦩 FLAMINGOS ARE PRETTY FUNKY
🐹 THE QUIET FOREST
https://www.abicushman.com | Newsletter: https://www.abicushman.com/join-my-email-list
I write picture books for adults to read to children so that children fall in love with reading.
New in 2026: A Celebration of You (3.17); The Dino Door (5.5).
linkin.bio/joshfunkbooks
teacher, author, abuela and vovó. Kids are my life. 🇧🇷🇨🇺🇺🇸🍮
We're #KidLit authors and illustrators with #picturebooks launching in 2025. Join us on a reading adventure to feel the PBVIBES in 2025 and beyond!📚🌈
linktr.ee/pb25vibes
Author | Cricket Media, IntellyJelly|#SCBWImember| #PB #Kidlit #rateyourstory
Upcoming PB, 25' by Holiday House
http://instagram.com/namrata.writer/
Picture Book author. NJ-Tucson #SCBWI Cat & cacti wrangler School visits-https://lisagerin.com
Author of ROSALIND LOOKED CLOSER- abt scientist Rosalind Franklin (22') LUCY STONE SPEAKS UP about suffragette Lucy Stone
(27) Beaming Books Former librarian
Editor @ Atheneum (S&S) | 🌈 bi/pan genderfluid (she/they); neurospicy; 최민지, Korean-Am; plant witch meets punky morbid grandma/cat daddy; opinions my own.
manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/kristie-choi
I notice things for a living. Editorial director, Workman Kids; author of THE MAGIC WORDS: WRITING GREAT BOOKS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULTS and five picture books, most recently IT’S HARD TO BE A BABY; 6yo mom; Virgo/goofball. Opinions my own.
Ravenous reader, lazy gourmet, literary agent + cheese-obsessed human. Co-creator of #MSWL, Manuscript Wish List® + http://www.ManuscriptAcademy.com. ☕📚She/her.
Literary agent at Salky Literary Management. kristinostby.com
Founder, President, and Principal Agent at @psliterary.bsky.social. Representing a diverse list of internationally published, award-winning, bestselling & debut creators for over 20 years. 📚
(He/Him)
www.psliterary.com
Assistant Editor | Emerson Alum | bookseller | #editor #horror #romance #thriller #YA #adult #mg
Managing #kidlit Editor @fluxbooks.bsky.social + @jollyfishpress.bsky.social. YA/Adult sff writer. Shortlisted for the Page Turner Writing Award + Oxford/Pushkin Children's Books Fantasy Prize. CHASING STARS (hi-lo MG) out now! she/her.
Assistant Editor @ Holiday House | Interior Designer @ Tova's House | Most Awkward Guest @ Your House
she/her ~opinions are solely my own~
manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/tova-seltzer/
mexico city girl in bkln. likes the 🍷 not the 🏷. lets other pens dwell on guilt&misery. editor at Holiday House, writer by night. opinions my own.
Writer | Editor | Tarot | Dogs
Associate Agent at Looking Glass Literary Management! Lover of books, writing, cats, and breakfast foods. Ethel Cain connoisseur. She/her.✨
Owner/agent 3 Seas Literary Agency, motivational speaker, educator, mom to the most adorable 2&4-legged creatures, volunteer maniac & lover of all things cute & fun. Go Badgers!!!!
📖 Junior Literary Agent at Kate Nash Literary Agency 💬 "You chose looks. I chose books." 📚 #RespectRomFic 🩷
Founder & Agent, Looking Glass Literary & Media
Building KidLit universes with stories that matter || Agent Fuse Literary
Founder of Britt Siess Creative Management/ Literary Agent/ Graphic Novels/ Cosplay/ Cake/ 🇲🇽🇩🇪/ Banner Art by @lazyfishy
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
Kidlit writer, geek, deaf AF in one ear, living with chronic migraines, Searchlight Awards 2024 Best Children's Novel Opening Longlistee, SCBWI member, cat wrangler, book dragon
website: melissambergum.wixsite.com/melissabergum
Author, artist, gamer & GIANT GEEK (she/her) 🇨🇦
Tortured soul behind the writer's resource
@descriptionary.bsky.social
descriptionary.wordpress.com
Flash fiction writer in 🇨🇦 | Highly Commended Bridport Prize and Finalist for New Millennium Writings 2025 | Stories in FlashFlood, Paragraph Planet, 50-Word Stories, Writers’ Hour, The Hoolet’s Nook, and elsewhere.
linktr.ee/adelegallogly
Writer, talker, asker, curiouser. #VerseShow #kidlit podcast with @brennajeanneret. Family man w/2 girls, he/him. http://linktr.ee/VerseShow
Senior editor at Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers | moonlighting as @elshenwrites.bsky.social | she/her
Executive Editor at Random House Studio 📚
editorial assistant/acquiring editor at disney hyperion | fandom (studies) enthusiast | 🏳️🌈 | opinions my own
🇦🇺🇺🇸Author/illustrator/editor Antarctica 🇦🇶 #OceanDevotion
Antarctica-obsessed, ocean-loving, kayak-paddling bird nerd
www.IcebirdStudio.com
Ocean Devotion on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@HashtagOceanDevotion
Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/oceandevotion
Executive Editor @ Random House Books for Young Readers. 408 in the land of 212. It's pronounced meow with an L. Opinions are my own. She/her. Banner art by Diobelle Cerna.
Executive Editor, Sourcebooks. She/her
Fiction Editorial Director, HarperCollins Children’s Books
Mom, teacher (M. Ed), author of the ZOEY AND SASSAFRAS SERIES + more, editor @ Innovation Press
✨ he/they • 🏳️⚧️🌈 • assistant editor acquiring @ Peachtree / Peachtree Teen • rep: Daniele Hunter • protect trans kids • opinions mine ✨
linktr.ee/kade_dishmon
Acquiring editor for Free Spirit Publishing, an imprint of Teacher Created Materials, the leading publisher of social & emotional learning books for kids, teens, & educators. Write for us! She/her
Senior Editor at UNSQ :: speculative fiction :: Freelance writer sometimes :: Professional Nerd :: neurospicy :: opinions my own :: she/her 🏳️🌈
Editor at Disney-Hyperion▫️ House Stark; more of an Arya than a Tony ▫️ Opinions my own; pic @JarrettWilliams's ▫️ they/them
https://rachelstark7.wixsite.com/home/books-i-ve-edited
Senior editor at Little, Brown
Not a girl, not yet a dad
Instagram: vleebooks
vivianwmlee.com
Editor of books & watcher of tv
editor & maker of good trouble at Atheneum/Scarlett Press (Simon & Schuster) • california coastal creature • still workin’ on it 🌱🌈✨
https://featherflores.com/
she/her • kitty art by Carrie Liao 🐾
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Hi I’m Danielle and I get overly invested in fictional things for fun and for a living //Associate Editor @ S&S Children’s // (she/her) 🏳️🌈
Children's book editor living in Brooklyn. Books, cats, food, travel, running, stuff. Check out my podcast with Grace Lin, Book Friends Forever!
Senior Editor at S&S Atheneum by day, purveyor of dad jokes by night, eternal sea hag. My tweets are my own. she/her 🇧🇷🇺🇸 Avatar by the wonderful Tanya J. Scott
http://bit.ly/juliambooks
Children's book editor, knitter, baker, erstwhile ballerina. Wrangler of two no longer small children. (she/her)
Previously agented MG and YA writer seeking new rep. Freelance editor and former managing editor in children’s trade publishing. MFA. STL ➡️ ATL. Olympian multitasker. She/her.
Sr. Editorial Director for Carolrhoda Books/Lab and Zest Books at Lerner Publishing Group. Scribbler, scone enthusiast, history nerd, owner of multiple unmatched mittens. Opinions my own. She/her.
Retired Library Girl. Writing. Reading. #amquerying #kidlit #SCBWI #writingcommunity #pbparty
Writer and illustrator of children’s picture books
Author-Illustrator of #TheFriendlyMammoth & #CanYouSeeTheStarsTonight? OUT NOW 💫 ✏️Rep’d by @BathLitAgency 🏳️🌈 She/her
Website: https://annaterrerosmartin.co.uk
Shop: https://annaterrerosmartin.co.uk/shop
Writing is my passion. I have produced material for television and the stage. My children’s book My Zombie Best Friend was published in 2017. https://www.facebook.com/TerryLowellAuthor
USA Today Bestselling author/illustrator of funny kids books with heartfelt characters and a little bit of mayhem. Creator of the Duck & Moose graphic novel series (Disney-Hyperion).
Represented by @anacrespobooks.bsky.social
He/Him
kirkreedstrom.com
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/
Mexican-American kidlit author living in the UK. 🇲🇽🇺🇸🇬🇧
Books 📚:
Mariana and Her Familia
The Worry Balloon
How to Speak in Spanglish
Sing it Like Celia
Taco Tuesdays
Leyendas/Legends
My Barrio Sings in Spanglish ('27)
Rep: Melissa Edwards, Stonesong
M.Ed. Children's Book Writer. Picture Taker. Nature Lover. Anglophile.
Curious about flora and fauna of all kinds but particularly fond of elephants, wolves, birds, insects, and trees.
#SCBWI. #12x12 #kidlit #naturalist
elizabethvolkmannauthor.com
Children’s book Illustrator, Sketchbook Scribbler ✏️& Maker of many things 🪡| Rep’ed by Miranda Paul at ACM Kids & Illustration
🕸️ www.srinidhidraws.com
📧 srinidhis01@gmail.com
Children’s author - You Choose picture books, and many more.
Island-dwelling picture-book-maker.
Author & illustrator of STERLING, BEST DOG EVER • LITTLE JUNIPER MAKES IT BIG • THE WORD FOR FRIEND
and... CAT SHAPES, spring 2026!
portfolio at http://aidancassie.com
🎨 Author & Illustrator | Surface Designer
📖 If You Are an Artist (Peter Pauper Press 2024) When Night Sleeps (Post Wave 2027)
#kidlit #kidlitart #writingcommunity
🎨 Custom Pet Portraits
📧 megauchenbach@gmail.com
💻 www.megauchenbach.com
Children’s books & editorial illustrator, professor
#Kidlit Rep’d by Jennifer Laughran at ABLA
Other: Rep’d by i2iart
🎥 Host of Gab ‘n’ Doodle every Thurs on Insta
📘 New book PIGGY BANK SAVES THE DAY
🚫 No AI Art
https://linktr.ee/studiohoffmann
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.
