she/her | 📚 literary agent with Prospect Agency repping kidlit authors and illustrators | toddler mom | Greater Boston Area | opinions mine
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www.charlottewenger.com
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✨📚🏳️🌈| backyard gardener🌻| associate literary agent @ ABLA |
📚 Associate Agent at Creative Media Agency
✍🏼 Editor at Sun & Spines Editorial
🎙️ Co-Host of Flublishing Podcast
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Illustrator. Some time author. Hoping someone brought donuts.
Portfolio jkharney.blogspot.com
📚KidLit Author
#SCBWI PA East Critique Group Coordinator
👻GILBERT & THE GHOST (Beaming Books 2025)
🐰PAISLEY'S BIG BIRTHDAY (Clavis Books, 2023)
🚌PAISLEY’S BIG FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL (Clavis Books, 2027)
picture book obsessed, creator of stuff
Starling Literary + Media represents bestselling and award-winning creators, as well as debuts. Our goal is to help create enduring legacies through our strategic guidance, editorial savvy, and innovative business tactics.
Unpub.org
The Unpublished Games Network
Posts by Blüdle, Grüdle, and Mac
Blog about kids books? You bet (A Fuse #8 Production). Library degree? You know it. Books for kids? Five. Books for adults about kidlit? Two. Podcasts about kids books? One (Fuse 8 n’ Kate). Having fun! https://afuse8production.slj.com
Writer, reader, guitarist
Rhymes with "rock." Comics writer, filmmaker, photojournalist. SUPERNATURAL, PLANET HULK. He/him. @comixaction.com #Comics4Liam
Call your reps (reps.fyi). Stop posting on X.
All my links: gregpak.fyi
(@gregpak.com for work only)
Author-Illustrator. Cincinnati OH. #SCBWI member. #12x12 member
Portfolio: http://www.OlgaSmithIllustrator.com
#kidlitart #kidlitillustrator
News updates from the #1 news source in the Pacific NW. See it all at www.OregonLive.com.
Los Angeles via Hampton U via Houston
Concept Artist: Sinners, Wakanda, TheyClonedTyrone, etc.
www.NIKKOLAS.art
Proudly Representing Maryland’s 7th Congressional District. Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and Congressional Black Caucus.
✨Author of the Meli & Mac children's picture book series.📖
🦩Book 1: Meli & Mac: Rendez-Vous with a Flamingo 🥐🍤 🇬🇧 🇫🇷
I write #PB #YA to uplift, inspire, and entertain kids.❤️ Boy mom. MS teacher. Coordinator for #Mightykidlit. ND 💫🤩📝🌈
Seeking Rep- https://loriknutsen.my.canva.site
#50Preciouswords ‘25 HM
#springflingkidlit ‘25 Winner
#Halloweensie ‘25 HM
#SCBWI
#12X12
Author Symptoms of a Heartbreak, How Maya Got Fierce, Tiny Pretty Things, The Rumor Game | Screenwriter | Journalist | Senior Editor, Scholastic | traveler @ishqinabackpack | #adhd creative | #Chaitime | mama
Executive Editor, Sourcebooks. She/her
chronically tired but determined
✒️ literary agent at belcastro agency
🎨 author branding expert @litmotif.ca
gen queries: CLOSED
bipoc queries: OPEN
find me everywhere: https://linktr.ee/seraphecda
#kidlit MG and YA author
2023 #WriteMentor Mentee
2022 #PitchMe finalist
#MGalomaniacs
Author/Illustrator Looking for representation.
Artist
Author
12x12
SCBWI Southern Breeze Region Mentee 2022
www.picturebookisland.com
bsky pitch event for unagented creators from marginalized communities
next event TBA
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Picture book author. Reader. Bookstore and library lover. All about my kids and cats. Repped by Ammi-Joan Paquette. #Kidlit website: www.patzietlowmiller.com
🙋🏼♀️Writer. #STEMGirl. Math nerd. ✍️ KidLit author. Freelancer. Teacher. #SCBWI. 📍Oklahoma
www.sallyhoch.com
Literary Agent/Partner at JVNLA
@jvnla.bsky.social
https://www.jvnla.com/
Correspondent on the Daily Show. Standup Comic & Emmy-nominated writer. Listen to the Josh Johnson Show podcast on Spotify + Apple
https://linktr.ee/joshjohnsoncomedy
Author-Illustrator, Amigurumi Artist, A GIFT FOR NAI NAI (12/5/23) 👧🏻🎁👵🏼, http://instagram.com/AutumnLeaflet, Rep’d by Miranda Paul, https://linktr.ee/AutumnLeaflet
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
OTIS HAS A BAD DAY (2023)
Mom, Picture Book Author, LCMHC, Coffee Enthusiast, #InkedVoices Member & #PBParty 2025 Finalist!
1/8 of #kidlitzombieweek hosts.
www.rebecca-ensign.com
Rep'd by Michelle Witte (@michellewitte.bsky.social)
Encouraging others to get know science a little better. Kidlit author. Science educator. Rock collector. Stargazer. Nature photographer. Animal buddy. They/She. Repped by Ammi-Joan Paquette.
www.KatieSlivensky.com
Hosts of #KidlitZombieWeek 2025, @kaitlynleann17.bsky.social @rebecca-ensign.bsky.social @midfreeman.bsky.social @byaliciameyers.bsky.social @janmilusich.bsky.social @drenderturmaud.bsky.social @kcstrocchia.bsky.social @storiesbystephm.bsky.social
Writer. Illustrator. I make picture books.
Author of TWO DOGS ON A TRIKE, LISTEN, COUNT ON US, TODAY, and LOOK | Rep: Natalie Lakosil, @lookingglasslit.bsky.social | she/her
A hub for middle grade writers
Writer, hex throwing goon. Dainty, delicate, and deadly.
Author of books. Maker of art. Speaker of speeches. Part squid/part earthquake. Literacy fanatic. Lover of corn. Ardent supporter of teenagers. Founder of 🏳️🌈 Gracie's House: www.gracieshouse.com.
She/her https://linktr.ee/AS_King
Dad, husband, President, citizen. barackobama.com
Kid Lit writer with ADHD who likes to rock climb (She/her)
Rep: Sharon Belcastro at @belcastroagency.bsky.social
IG: @juli_writes #12x12PB #SCBWI
Pittsburgh's largest independent bookstore with a particular fondness for cookbooks, kid's books, mysteries, romance, fantasy, well actually all books.
Writer for children—reader forever…living my dream as the author of award-winning pictures books & helping others follow their dreams with the #50PreciousWords Writing Contest & Literacy Initiative. Lover of dark chocolate and compassionate people.
Author. Fledgling poet. MGHub co-founder. Rep’d by Nicole Eisenbraun @ GCL. Debut novel, WHERE THE LIGHT SHINES IN, releasing 9.29.26.
Website: jemattern.com
Author/Illustrator of many delightful picture books and Storyboard Professor at Otis College of Art & Design www.chrisrobertsonbooks.com
📚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
author + stray piece of glitter writing YA romcoms for fat Latinas 🇵🇷
💚 FAT CHANCE, CHARLIE VEGA
📸 NO FILTER AND OTHER LIES
🍁 THE FALL OF WHIT RIVERA
🌙 CAMP SYLVANIA: MOON MADNESS
🗺️ GET REAL, CHLOE TORRES (spring 2025)
💌 Contact: crystalwrote.com
Venezuelan children's book author. A HOUSE IN MY BARRIO (Henry Holt. Fall 2026), HOW TO EAT A MANGO (2024). Rep’d by Jen Rofé.
https://linktr.ee/paolagsantos
Dual immersion teacher and author I Crack Goes the Cascarón '25 I Alberto Salas Plays Paka Paka con la Papa '25 I A Tanta Wawa for Abuelo '26
Repped by Nicole Geiger-Full Circle Literary
#LatinxPitch Co-founder
she/Ella
www.sarafajardowrites.com
Cuban Mermaid & Author/Illustrator, repped by Saritza at Andrea Brown Literary Agency!
✨🎉 Debut Early Reader comic Snap! Crunch! Munch? is out now! 🎉✨
https://www.amazon.com/dp/082345696X
#Kidlitart Portfolio: dianacastleart.com
Author of LOST ON DOLL ISLAND
(She/her/ella)
b. 1985
🔗: https://bit.ly/LostOnDollIsland
🔗: Linktr.ee/WriterCass
🔗: https://writercass.my.canva.site/
FREE PALESTINE
teacher, author, abuela and vovó. Kids are my life. 🇧🇷🇨🇺🇺🇸🍮
Author + Illustrator | 2x Newbery Medalist | National Book Award Finalist | NYT Bestseller | Agent: Sara Crowe | Faculty: USF MFAY | https://linktr.ee/erinentrada
NYT Best-selling raccoon enthusiast 🦝
Witchlings 4: Scepter of Memories out 9.16.25
I wrote Ghost Squad, the Witchlings series & the Eisner & Pura Belpré winning graphic novel Frizzy 🐓
https://linktr.ee/claribelortega
YA Author
www.writesandrawrite.com
Salvación (Out 5/20/25)
Preorder:
https://read.macmillan.com/lp/salvacion-9781250895080/
Relit (Out Now!)
The House Where Death Lives (Out Now!)
Literary Associate at Gallt & Zacker
www.readsandraread.com
Senior Agent at Neighborhood Literary. Lambda Award-winning author, sometimes. HOMEGROWN MAGIC out now, WHAT IF…KITTY PRYDE out next
OH FFS, do I have to
Okay fine, FINE, I'm a children's writer and artistttnnnggghhhh that still feels so weird to say, I'm also Korean American and autistic and a messy emotional glob who constantly gets sentimental on main, you've been warned
Mom 'n pop bookshop in downtown Takoma Park, MD. New books, hot zines, and Sunday storytimes. We're DC City Paper's Best Bookstore of 2025 (and 2024) 👍
Children's Author & Poet. 12x12 Rhyme Co-Elf. Bluesky Newbie.
A Purr-fect Passover '25, Purr-im Time! '23, Sharkbot Shalom '21, Larry's Latkes '21
Repped by Lisa Rambert-Valaskova/Transatlantic Agency
www.jennawaldman.com
IG: @jennawaldmanauthor
Everything kid lit, in one place! A website and community founded by Elaine Kiely Kearns and @sylvialiu.bsky.social. Follow us for weekly links to kid lit resources and book giveaways.
website: kidlit411.com
We give experienced picture book creators the platform to pull up-and-coming, historically excluded creators up the turbulent publishing ladder.
www.pbrisingstars.com
Author and stuff. Now: STREETLIGHT PEOPLE | next: IT’S YOU EVERY TIME | Rep: Ann Rose @ The Tobias Literary Agency (📚) ; Alec Frankel @ IAG (🎬)
Children’s Book Author
Rep: Stefanie Molina at Ladderbird
SM & Publicity for The Little Press
Preorder IT STARTED WITH A P 👇🏽
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738107/it-started-with-a-p-by-brittany-pomales-illustrated-by-andrew-joyner/
https://www.michelleskennedy.com/
https://x.com/MichelleSKenned
#PBWriter. Wife & mom. Loves Jesus. #SCBWI Co-Asst. Reg. Advisor, #12x12, #PBParty Finalist '24, '23, & '22 , #50PreciousWords HM '25, '23.
MG/YA Author. Video Game Designer.
SPELLBINDERS: OVERPOWERED now available!
spellbinderbooks.com
andrewauseon.com
Represented by Aevitas Creative Management.
MG horror writer. General weirdo. Find me running in the haunted cornfields. MG horror The Nowhere Series from Undertaker Books 2025-2026. HWA Chicago.
Creepy is fun.
Nana, picture book writer, maker of giant bubbles.
I have cerebral palsy. Picture books and middle grade. 6 books in my graphic novel series THE FANTASTIC FREEWHEELER are out now. 2 more releasing publication Fall 2025. Partnered with successor service dog Cotton. mollyfelder.com
Children's book author, writing instructor, and general word nerd. Lover of dogs, fairy tales, and silliness. My most recent titles: MY COUSIN'S MERMAID, THE WONDER OF WILDFLOWERS, and CLIQUE HERE. annastan.com
Novice Writer of Chapter Book Series, Experienced Grandmother, Almost Graduate of SNHU, Gladly Retired, Shivering Chicago Resident, Extreme Novice Website Developer (mine only), Longtime lover of life!
www.LeeBallardBooks.com
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
Auction by the #kidlit community to raise funds for Los Angeles wildfire relief efforts. Bidding: Jan 20th (9am PST) - Jan 28th (8pm PST).
Amazing items up for bid: www.32auctions.com/kidlitforlosangeles
Bear logo by Sydney Hanson IG: @sydwiki
Subsidiary Rights Director/Literary Agent at JABberwocky Literary Agency. Chingona cómo mi madre. 🇲🇽🗽📚
Lit Agent Intern @ Writers House | Author Rep'd @ Andrea Brown Lit | In-House Publicity Director | Latina Podcaster | Reviewer @ Publishers Weekly & Kirkus Indie | USBBY State Ambassador, OIB Committee | 🧑🎓PB Scholarship Founder
Author, Illustrator, Toy Designer and other Fun Stuff - https://creaturesandcharacters.com/
12 x 12 is a diverse community of picture book authors and illustrators at all levels. You get accountability & support in the goal to write 1 new PB draft each month + more! Registration open now! https://12x12challenge.com/membership.
Award winning children's book author, public speaker and disability activist. I champion misfits, underdogs and that weird kid nobody wanted to sit next to at lunch. (Spoiler alert: I qualify as all of the above.)
LGBTQIA+ally
No hate - just love
Always a reader, sometimes a writer, avid crocheter, lover of miniatures. Attempting to raise a puppeteer.
Founded by Lori Steel, SteelWorks Literary represents authors, illustrators, and graphic novelists for the children's and YA markets, and beyond.
https://steelworksliterary.com
https://QueryManager.com/LoriSteel
✏️Creating #kidlit for curious kids!
📚1st #ChapterBook Mystery out now!
🐙OCTO, PI, AND THE MISSING EGG🔎
📓Contact me for #STEAM Author Visits!
🌉Based in Pittsburgh, PA
Website devoted to YA, Middle-Grade, and Kids books.
We offer book reviews, blog content featuring author Q&A, guest posts, excerpts, cover reveals, and giveaways!
Authors- Check out how to advertise your book with YABC!
https://melissamwai.com/
Author, Illustrator, Podcaster | Rep'd by Jacqui Lipton at #TheTobiasLiteraryAgency
Out now: I CAN MAKE A FRIEND (Paw Prints, Apr ‘25)
#SCBWI | #PBCHATMentee | #ADHDwriter | #KDZPodcast
A full-service literary agency representing authors of fiction and nonfiction.
https://thetobiasagency.com/
English Prof. I research 1940s-1960s teen romance & print culture, the female network of editors & librarians who published midcentury #KidLit & #YALit, and fan & fandom studies. YA editor of JPRS. LOVES BOOKBINDING! She/her.
Author + Illustrator | 🇨🇺 | she/her | Rep: Wernick&Pratt | Abuelita & I Make Flan 🍮 / TUMBLE 🏜️ / Countdown for Nochebuena 🎄
picture book writer & naturalist
Rep'd by Amy Thrall Flynn, Aevitas Creative Management
3 books coming out 2026-2028!
#SCBWIsfnortheastbay Sonoma County CoCoordinator
https://www.karengebbia.com
Kidlit author & illustrator, educator, printmaker. Rockville, MD. MOSSY & TWEED (Holiday House), KITTY & CAT (Candlewick), LITTLE SEASONS (Odd Dot) series. Teaching online and in person. Repped by Laurel Symonds. https://smart.bio/mirkahokkanen
School Library Journal is the premiere publication for librarians and information specialists who work with children and teens. A source of quality, award-winning journalism and reviews for 70 years, SLJ publishes 5,000+ reviews annually.
Grateful for family, friends, readers, and books, including my own: SUPER JAKE & THE KING OF CHAOS, ON ALL OTHER NIGHTS, and THE TROUBLE WITH SECRETS (coming in April 2025!). I enjoy mentoring children and adults, and connecting with other writers.
Children’s literary agent with Mansion Street Literary (currently closed to queries) and mental health advocate. I also write craptastic books. She/her.
www.michellewitteliterary.com
Author, Law Professor, Senior Literary Agent,
@TheTobiasAgency. #VCFA #SCBWI; #HWA
; #AALA; LAW & AUTHORS: A LEGAL HANDBOOK FOR WRITERS (UC Press, 2020); OUR DATA, OURSELVES (UC Press, 2022). jlipton.com
New York Times bestselling author of the Library Jumpers series and other books. Founder of now retired PitchWars and PitMad. Lost in the Land of Enchantment. Fueled by coffee. brendadrake.com
A group blog of middle-grade authors celebrating books for middle-grade readers. For anyone with a passion for children’s literature. Join us! https://fromthemixedupfiles.com/
Teacher 🍎 Writer ✏️ Researcher
Kidlit 📖 Food History 🍳 Cast Iron Hollow Ware
Children’s Author. Devout Californian.
Rep'd by @jenrofe of ABLA
www.devpetty.com
NYT Bestselling Author of Defy the Night, A Curse So Dark and Lonely, Forging Silver into Stars, and a bunch of other books.
Teacher. Publisher of the Book-Loving Texan’s Guides to School Board Elections. Co-founder of Texas Freedom to Read Project.
TX Educator, Library Coordinator, Presenter, Reader, #FReadomFighter, Immediate Past President AASL | Opinions shared are solely my own
