Member of the SCBWI 📚, mom, wife, nurse
Children’s Book Author.
Librarian (Middle/High School & Public).
Mom. Dog mom. Human.
The U.P. of Michigan. boniashburn.com
#PB author of MY LIFE AS AN ASTHMANAUT (Free Spirit Publishing, April 14, 2026)
Pre-order here: https://bookshop.org/a/115186/9798885547970
More tales found in Cricket Media & online!
Website: https://jakelockettauthor.wixsite.com/jakelockettauthor
The Complete Picture Book Submissions System is a soup-to-nuts, self-paced, online course for crafting winning submissions that soar out of the slush pile! Answers every question you've ever had about submitting picture books to agents and editors.
parent, homemaker, library worker
reading, baking, thrifting, crafting
writing kidlit and romance
luddite, ND, third-gen soap watcher
Linktree: https://t.co/tIOvhhKZat
On stolen Ohlone land. Supporting https://sogoreate-landtrust.org/
🇮🇩🇸🇬🇺🇸 I write for kids! 📚RAMEN FOR EVERYONE🍜JIMMY’S SHOES👠 THE SUGAR PLUM BAKERS🧁
Draws comics/Believes in humanity/Hugs trees. (she/hers) 📚🌈🌍
'Botticelli’s Apprentice' from Quilltree/Harper Alley.
'A Cat Story' also from Quilltree/Harper Alley.
https://linktr.ee/umurrayhusted
Author of Fyre & Stone crime/historical fiction series.
Books on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Waterstones, Apple Books & Google Play
Retired(ish) teacher, picture book writer, reader, library lover, geologist. I also love to sing, dance, code and learn about just about anything!
Mom, Wife, Writer (YA & MG Horror/Thriller/Paranormal), Advocate, 🌈🏳️⚧️Ally, Attorney, I love cheese/chocolate/art/lifting/stories in the spirit of The Goonies. No Kings. She/Her
Picture book author/illustrator of QUACKERS, THE GOOSE EGG, I AM NOT A PENGUIN. Illustrator of A MIND OF HER OWN: THE STORY OF MYSTERY WRITER AGATHA CHRISTIE, plus others! She/her
Rep: Alexandra Penfold at Upstart Crow
http://lizwongillustration.com
Multi genre author
Portfolio in the linktree
Don't try to sell me anything
https://linktr.ee/joelgloverauthor
Author, Blogger, Make the World a Better Placer (he/him). Out to empower Queer Youth and their allies. Out now: BANANA MENORAH (picture book on creativity + 2 Dad family) and THE GENDER BINARY IS A BIG LIE (nonfiction ages 11+)
Father, Husband, Teacher and Writer. Jedi Knight and friend to Captain Solo. Winter is coming. Mets, Orange, Isles, Bills fan. Novelist and writer NOT the artist with the same name! Opinions stated are mine and mine alone.
Author of stories for young’uns
THE BIG SQUEEZE (HarperCollins out now!)
WHIRBY (HarperCollins 2/17/2026)
I NEED SPACE (McElderry fall 2026)
Rep’d by @writeloudly.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/mollyharrisbooks
Mom of 2 daughters. Middle Grade Author. Repped by Nicole Eisenbraun. Developmental Editor. MS ELA Teacher. Tree-hugger. Vegetarian. Figure Skater. Dreamer.
#MGpies
https://mspitzerfranklin.wixsite.com/mysite/critique-services
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
Cartoonist & tea enthusiast
Just a rural-living, multi-crafting, neurospicy geek.
All opinions are my own, and are plentiful / freely offered.
Jewish. CSA Survivor. She/Her.
Mama Bear to every letter of the alphabet except TERFs; they can fend for themselves.
🍁 #Canadian - #Author - #Poet 🍁
amazon.com/author/phillipharrison
I like to try to write in ways that feed both the mind and soul. ♊ & #GenX #stationaryaddict
🛡️NO CHATS OR DM'S PLEASE🛡️
#kidlit #neurodivergentsupporter #12x12PBChallenge, fmr European expat, ❤️ cats, poodles, purple + chocolate, SCBWI-LA Mingle coord. PB debut fall ‘27. Rep’d by Marisa Cleveland. goodreadswithronna.com + RonnaMandel.com @pbcreativecrew.bsky.social
HS Librarian, former science teacher, dachshund lover, (Romance & YA) book blogger, AASL Intellectual Freedom Award Committee & Member Engagement Committee, MASL Membership committee.
Library wishlists: http://bit.ly/3UfXqHO & http://bit.ly/4mtN2s0
We are a group of children's book creators with books publishing in 2024 and beyond.
Bestselling author of 50+ books. PRINCESS ACADEMY, AUSTENLAND, PRINCESS IN BLACK, REAL FRIENDS, DREAM ON, ITTY BITTY KITTY-CORN. Mom of 4, wife of 1. she/her. Curiosity and compassion. www.shannonhale.com
👩🎨 Artist📍Based in Florida 🐊
Freehand dip pen сontemporary ink on paper 🖋️
Mostly drawings ✍️
Vegan 🌱🫶
nenazhivina.com/hi
No DMs. Any enquirers: olga@nenazhivina.com
Author of the best selling Louisa Moss detective series.
Ex-nightclub boss and, due to carelessness, owner of only half a lung.
Poems and Limericks daily.
YA Author | NPR Best Book Winner | Educator
Authorpreneurship Coach at Tanabata Wishes Enterprises
aka The Obento Lady
https://linktr.ee/saraffujimura
Illustrator + Designer
🌸Rep’ed by Illo Agency
🧚🏻♂️Clients:PRH•Scholastic•Harpercollins•Hachette
Proudly Minneapolis born. Formerly CT, Currently Chapel Hill NC, Passionate advocate for the needs of highly/profoundly gifted and twice-exceptional students in elementary education. MA UNC-CH Folklore.
Gen Z. Pescatarian. Screenwriter. Songwriter. Playwright.
Free trial: Patreon.com/ParliamentPictures
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Picture book author/illustrator, painter, ukulele-player, nature-loving artsy gal • Newest book: If I Could Draw... by DC Canada Educational Publishing
Seeking commissions
https://patriciastorms.com
Author illustrator of kid's books
Rep'd by Lorna Hemingway @ The Darley Anderson Agency
National Geographic, Highlights Magellan, Franklin Watts, Collins Big Cat, Brilliant Monsters Books @scbwi
http://www.emmalatham.com
Best-selling #author passionate about #fairytale retellings! Check out the Twisted Fairytales Collection! Find my books at Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/KuroKoneko%20Kamen DMs r off
Canadian
Author of Beyond the Mark: Ashes of the Hero. 🗡🛡🔮✨️🧙♂️
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/beyond-the-mark
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DM96B5J9
Singer for Violet Outburst 🎸🎤
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Vf4w9Ze38rLniADBEGKSp?si=AcWduGX
Author, storyteller, writer, reading aficionado, Star Wars enthusiast, Mets devotee, student, sister, twin 🖤🤍💜
http://www.jessieatkin.com/
Children's Illustration, Writer of Picture Books and Graphic Novels. Love animals and nature #kidlitart #kidlitillustration #kidlit
SCBWI | CANSCAIP | 12x12 | 2025 Chuckle Challenge Finalist | HM 2025 Halloweensie Contest | AHOY, MATE, AHOY! MISS MOLLY MOLLOY releases April 2026
Mexican Illustrator • KidLit Art • Published by: Charlesbridge, Beaming Books, Richmond, Edelvives. | ✉️ mariadrawss@outlook.com |
Insta: mariadrawssart
📚Children’s Author ✍️
Nature Lover!
🚫DMs - Writer of contemporary fiction. The stories have always been there, just writing them down now.
Kidlit Illustrator
•Crocodile Christmas, out with PRH
•Honorable Mention, 2025 PB Rising Stars
•Seeking representation
•Email: dibba.rangeen@gmail.com
•Portfolio: www.dibbarangeenstudio.com
Artist! Won a Hugo once! Black! I like everyday fantasy! Made a graphic novel! Drew some kids books! Estoy aprendiendo español!
Rep'd by @grahamophones.bsky.social
https://gdbee.carrd.co / https://gdbee.store
PNW author+illustrator | THE DAY WE GOT LOST |
Repp’d: @mollyoneillbooks
faithpraybooks.com
https://linktr.ee/faithpray7
Picture book author. Figuring this wacky world out one picture book, one haiku, one overanalyzed nursery rhyme at a time.
Author-Illustrator:SARI-SARI SUMMERS Illustrator: MILES AHEAD('26), LOOKING FOR GIFTS & TALENTS('27),AT THE END OF THE DAY,KAILANI'S GIFT,SEASHELL KEY Series, THE WORLD'S BEST CLASS PLANT,YOU ARE REVOLUTIONARY,JACK & AGYU https://linktr.ee/lynnorbontigao
Lori Kilkelly (she/her) posting for my boutique literary agency. Reps seasoned & rising talent in children's & YA lit (est 2018).
Celebrating the legacy of Katey Howes, beloved kidlit author:
WHERE THE DEER SLIP THROUGH - OUT NOW!
Coming soon: TAKE IT APART 2026
Website: https://www.kateyhowes.com
Repped by Essie White: https://www.stormliteraryagency.com/katey-howes
Webpage : www.MidnightAtelier.com
Instagram : @ midnight_atelier
Represented by Rachel Orr at Prospect Agency.
My debut Picture Book, "My Someone" will be out in March 2026 (RISE x Penguin Workshop).
𝙲𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚍𝚛𝚎𝚗'𝚜 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔 𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚞𝚜𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚘𝚛
https://linktr.ee/marrillu
🌐 https://marrilluart.mobirisesite.com/
𝙻𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚊𝚐𝚎r www.focusedartists.com
Picture book author & elementary educator
Up next:
IN THIS CLASSROOM (Spring 2026)
SQUIRREL & TURTLE: THIS BOOK HAS BIG WORDS (Fall 2027)
https://t.co/YSBfW8Jq3
Author of nonfiction and poetry books for kids, lover of nature and photography. Check out my new book: STARLIGHT SYMPHONY. Visit me at www.buffysilverman.com
Author, STEM, ocean, islander.
🌊 SUPERPOD: SAVING THE ENDANGERED ORCAS OF THE PNW (‘23)
🕳️THIS BOOK IS FULL OF HOLES (’24)
🫧 THIS BOOK BUBBLES OVER (‘25)
🐋 12 DARING GRAYS (‘26)
🦍WILD MEDICINE (‘26)
She/her. Rep: Lynnette Novak
www.noranickum.com
Author of Werelock & Scratch, Christmas Lights on Mistletoe Street, Yetis Don’t Exist, All I Hope For You, Superheroes Don’t Get Scared
Rep’d by Jo Williamson at Antony Harwood.
More info here: https://www.katethompson.co.uk
Insta: @katethompsonwrites
Author of ENOUGH IS… Tilbury House '23, illus. Nicole Wong | I THINK I THINK A LOT Free Spirit Publishing '23, illus. Josée Bisaillon | Repped by Emily Keyes | website: authorjessicawhipple.com | also poetry | https://linktr.ee/JessicaWhippl17
Writer. Illustrator. Wild Feminist. Book lover. 1 wife, 3 kids, 3 cats. (She/her)
http://withoutaladder.com/portfolio/
http://instagram.com/withoutaladder/
Writer of #kidlit. Former teacher and librarian. Current kid wrangler. Mutant diabetic and perpetually tired nd. Author of 1st Day of Unicorn School (Capstone) and I WANT TO DANCE IN PANTS (Sleeping Bear, 2025) www.jesshernandezwrites.com
#Author of I WANT MY BOOK BACK and TEACH YOUR GIRAFFE TO SKI. #kidlit #SCBWI Repped by Christie Megill at CAT agency
children's book author of THE GABI THAT GIRMA WORE (Little, Brown 2024), NOT JUST THE DRIVER (Beach Lane Books, April 9, 2024), CHALLAH FOR SHABBAT TONIGHT (Fall 2024), school librarian
Children's Author + Poet
🦁 ANIMALS IN PANTS (Abrams)
🦖 DINOS THAT DRIVE (Tundra)
🤡 A YEAR IN CLOWN TOWN (Tundra)
🐍 SALVADOR SNAKE: LOOKING FOR LOVE (Macmillan/Balzer + Bray)
www.suzylevinson.com
You can find me with my head in the clouds, nose in a book, heart on my sleeve and hands busy with a pencil.
Children’s book writer-illustrator rep’d by Cindy Bullard of Birch Literary. NYPL After-School Tutor. Pro-LGBTQA+, anti-book banning, She/Her.
SPRINKLE KINDNESS EVERYWHERE
Picture book author, cat lover, ballet dancer, Francophile, http://www.randilynnmrvos.comhttps://mighty-kidlit.mn.co/members/34847537
Children's Writer, Rhymer, Reader
https://linktr.ee/KellyConroy
Rep'd by Sarah Stephens | SCBWI | 12x12
You Are My Everything - Tiger Tales '24
I See You In The Stars - Familius '26
*Mostly on Instagram
Scruffy-looking word herder. PB + YA author. 🚀 ROCKET SHIP, SOLO TRIP (Viking, '24). ROCKET BEAMS, LUNAR DREAMS (Viking, '25). 🇮🇹 | 🏳️🌈🩷💚💙 | She/Her | Photo credit: Lauren Barkume
www.chiaracolombi.com
Aspiring children's book author/illustrator navigating life with two little ones, a growing menagerie, and a love of travel. (She/Her) #amwriting #amquerying #SCBWI #12x12
https://erinrew.com
writer, mama, educator, budding Illustrator -
writing essays & picture books and supporting my #kidlit & #cnf peeps
#neurospicy #chronicillness #feminist
Award winning Illustrator of Picture Books represented by East West Literary- books with Simon and Schuster, Flamingo PRH, and Harper Collins
Heatherbrockmanlee.com
PB & YA writer | #SCBWI | The Inner Circle at @thewritersbarn | #CouragetoCreate | #chronicallyill | #PsoriaticArthritis | 2023 Austin SCBWI Cynthia Leitich Smith Mentorship Finalist | Imagination Library of Waco board member |
Picture book author | Rat enthusiast 🐀 | Join my mailing list (not haunted) https://forms.gle/f7131vYcCiTd6GVx8
Author. Illustrator. SCBWI Illustrator Coordinator LA/MS Region. Loves to draw. Loves really weird animals. Denisegallagher.com
#KidLitArt chat for children's illustrators & fans of kidlit art.
Next chat - Thurs, Mar 26, 9pm EST/6pm PST
March topic - Shop Talk
Mods - @charlenedraws.bsky.social and @weyakindesigns.bsky.social
Married. Children's Author. Writing PB, MG, some YA. Kidlit. SCBWI Regional Advisor Emerita. Former Institute of Children’s Literature Instructor.
I write helps & book recs on my site susanuhlig.com.
WA state. Owned by cat.
Illustrator and author of children’s picture books.
Rep’d by Luddington Creative
Children's Poet. Author of THE RED EAR BLOWS ITS NOSE: Poems for Children and Others (Word Galaxy 2023). Starred reviews in Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, and School Library Journal. Common Sense Media Selection. Bank Street Selection.
Writer, creator, laugher, punner, mom-joker, observer. Co-editor of GNOMES & UNGNOMES: Poems of HIdden Creatures (Dec. 2023). @WritersLoftMA.bsky.social
📚 AudreyDayWilliams.com
👻 PlayTrickOrTreat.com
Author of the Unicorn and Yeti. Sub It Club moderator. Librarian. Garlic farmer. Represented by @mccarthylit https://www.heatherayrisburnell.com/
https://www.greatnortherngarlic.com/
Author and Illustrator of children’s books
📚🎨 https://www.shirleyngbenitez.com/
—Everyone’s a story.
Editorial Director @ PEN America (formerly Today Show, NBC News, AP) and I write for kids. HOW TO BE A ROCK STAR (2022) CAN YOU IMAGINE? (Atheneum, 2025). #12x12
Definitely not a cryptid pretending to be human or anything.
KidLit Author, Illustrator, Designer. JasonHendrickson.com
Professor & scholar of peace, human rights, migration & education
University of San Francisco
(views posted here are my own)
Debut picture book A YEAR OF KITES out in 2026 with Bloomsbury
www.monishabajaj.net
Pronouns: she/her/वह
sunburned ginger · middle-grade author · children’s playwright · school librarian · two-time Friedrich von Trapp · #amwriting #amquerying #amsleepy
🔗 https://linktr.ee/msteelewrites
Writer. Reader. Artist. Word Witch. #SCBWI Member. Once upon a time owner of The Wandering Jellyfish Bookshop. Books are breath. Stories are life. Words are magic. Love wins 💕 #kidlit #kidlitart #easternup
Picture Book Author/ Illustrator Seeking Representation
Educator • Maker • Mama 🩷
🎨 Vis Dev @ Nickelodeon, Netflix, Paramount, Sony Pictures Animation
Professor Art Center College of Design
#SCBWI Member
http://www.kristydraws.com
IG @Kristysketch
Author from Minnesota :)
Demon Scout 😈 🍪
Rule 25: Don't Fall for the Target ❤️🗡
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.
I'm an author, illustrator, animator & puppeteer. I write stories and comics about nature, especially insects! Currently seeking an agent. he/him www.johnlechner.com 🍃
REWRITING THE RULES (Sept '25 Millbrook Press)
#MakingSTEMaccessible
Bio PhD | PB MG YA author |
1st pl '22: #rateyourstory & #springflingkidlit
3x winner #50PreciousWord '22/3/4;
Highlights sch '23
Rep: @gabycabezut @SeymourAgency
www.dannazeiger.com
author/illustrator based in Portland, Oregon.
portfolio: www.fairywulf.com
Rep’d by Jemiscoe Chambers-Black at the Andrea Brown Literary Agency. ✍🏽📚🎨
Writes books for young, curious minds.
Repped by Naomi Davis, Bookends Literary
The Ghost Queen is a JLG Selection : 11 Feb, 2025
https://www.mahtabnarsimhan.com/
Picture book illustrator working in gouache! he/they 🏳️⚧️ 🖌️ 🌿
WHOSE TREE IS THIS (Singer, Lerner, S '26)
THE HOUSE THAT FEELS LIKE ME (Allen, LBYR, W '27)
Rep'd by Naomi Davis @ BookEnds Literary
💌 contact: hello@julianplum.com
🎨 portfolio: julianplum.com
Illustrator & author of books for kids. Repped by Jenn Laughran @literaticat.bsky.social of ABLA. Creator of the MAIL DUCK books published by Abrams Appleseed. www.ericasirotich.com
Award-Winning 🇨🇦 #kidlit author of 30 books
(picture books, graphic novels, middle grade, young adult, non-fiction)
https://linktr.ee/deborahkerbel
NEW in 2025:
NO HUDDLES FOR HELOISE (Orca)
WHAT ABOUT AN ELEPHANT? (Owlkids)
COMMUNITY SNOWMAN (Groundwood)
Author-illustrator 🇰🇷🇬🇧 She/her
Agent: Susan Hawk | Upstart Crow Literary
BINNA’S DALGONA out now!
tinyurl.com/3m7bpcd3
World Illustration Awards 2021
Advert Category Winner
instagram.com/creativesojung
sojungkimmccarthy.art
sojungkimmccarthy@gmail.com
Author of Award-winning FOREVER HOME, 2022 IPNE Best Children’s Book; 2023 Writers Digest Honorable Mention-Children’s Picture Book. Published poet and writer, collage artist, baker and doter of grandchildren.
Children's book author. UP AND ADAM (2022, Kids Can Press), ABUELA'S LETTER (2024, Magination Press) & ISABEL'S BIRTHDAY SURPRISE (2025, Magination Press). Baker. Tea Lover. Knitter. #12x12 #SCBWI
