Sparking the imaginations of young readers! Now in our 6th year, we are excited to welcome schools across the country to join our awards & vote for the winners. www.sparkbookawards.co.uk
We are a national education charity and membership organisation that supports all schools to encourage reading for pleasure through the school library. Find out more: https://sla.org.uk #BookSky
At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚
News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨
🏳️🌈 they/them
Author/illustrator
Homebody 🏠 (PanMacmillan UK/HarperAlley US) | Repped by @lydiarsilver 🌟 | AuDHD
Account for the CILIP School Libraries Group in Scotland.
🚴BMX and Ancient Rome📜
Children's author #PrincessBMX #MyFamilyandOtherRomans #AuntieMedusaAndMe @chickenhsebooks
Fab school visits
Rep The Shaw Agency
she/her
www.mariebasting.com
▪️ Children's author writing stories & poems filled with giggles & warmth.
▪️Teacher
▪️Shortlisted for Sheffield Children's Book Award 2023
▪️www.emmaperryauthor.com she/her
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
Reads, doesn't really write, works as a secondary school librarian, used to teach in primary, reads some more.
Mainly reviews everything read (middle grade, young adult and fantasy in the most part).
Poet/Performer/Author. Winner - People’s Book Prize & Laugh Out Loud Award (twice). Books by Bloomsbury, HarperCollins etc. MA Writing & Education. Loves lemurs. Website: www.joshuaseigal.co.uk
Dad of 2, primary Deputy Head and Y6 teacher. NPQH, LA KS2 writing moderator. English specialism with passion for children's literature. Reviews, giveaways and book promotion on all platforms as @richreadalot and at whatiread.co.uk
Reader. Teacher. ND. Autistic/ADHD (AuDHD).
📒Author of All Brains Are Wonderful (b small publishing) 🧠💛
📗Author of 100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: Reading for Pleasure (Bloomsbury) 📚💚
📖Children's Books Consultant
🏆Book Award Judge
✍️Educational Writer
Children’s author. Kiko and the Coralline Crest, Hallie and the Broken Ghost, Mina the Mighty (Mar ‘25) and When the sea left (Aug ‘25).
Eternal optimist/casual obsessive
She/Her | SOA
nhollandauthor.wixsite.com/books
Author, human, quite sleepy.
www.katharineorton.com
UK children's author. Theatre lover and Brighton and Hove Albion fan. New book in April 25.
Author. 📚♿️PhD. Academic. Programme Leader BA Creative Writing. Uni of Winchester. SoA. Always looking for the positive in a complicated life
School librarian, keeper of all things bookish, thoughts and opinions my own
Blog 'Books & Beyond' - https://www.bedes.org/senior/academic/library/library-blog
Writer, swimmer, reader, music-maker. Cornwall-based. Proper job. Here for fun & games & booknookery. Royal Literary Fund Fellow. London Writers’ Salon Coach.
@acwilsonwriter.substack.com
✏️ Children's Writer
📚 Teacher
🎉 Rep'd by Rachael Davis-Featherstone at Creative Roots Studio
Secondary School Librarian in Sheffield 📚
Wannabe Author/Writer of many things 📖
🌻+♾️+💜🖤🩶🤍+💛💜🖤🤍
2025=70📚
2024=104📚
She/Her/They/Them
News and updates from Mr Owens and the library team at Hebburn Comprehensive School.
Children’s author - You Choose picture books, and many more.
Word wrangler of psychological thrillers The Stalker & YA Scare Me & more! Freq enraged. Obsessed with stationery & easily distracted by cats & dogs. She/her. Website https://teriterry.jimdoweb.com/
An unusual mix of 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇦🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇫🇮
Pushkin Children’s brings the world’s greatest stories to young readers - to be read and read again. Children's imprint of @PushkinPress
https://linktr.ee/pushkin_press
Bestselling children’s author: Podkin, Dungeon Runners, Jed Greenleaf 📚
https://linktr.ee/kieranlarwood?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
#Booklover #Author
#CrimeFiction as Kate Wells
#ChildrensBooks as Kate Poels
Rep'd by Amanda at LBA
Published by Boldwood and Maverick
Storysmith. DOCTOR WHO. KNIGHTS OF THE BORROWED DARK. And CONN OF THE DEAD - coming soon!
I write funny books for children and teens and sometimes I illustrate them too.
⭐️The Land of Roar
⭐️Fairy Vs Boy
⭐️Friends Like Us
Author, mother of adults, ParkRunner, singer, knitter, wild swimmer, ag foghlaim Gaeilge. sueturbett.com
Pronounced ‘Kaylin’ | #TheMirrorHalls coming 2026 in 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🇸🇪 |
#Home🏚️ out now from Bloomsbury Raven | Writer, teacher & dog owner | Agent Oli Munson AM Heath | They/them | Host @balancingthebooks.bsky.social | 🏴🏳️⚧️
Books, poems and trees 😌
Author of five novels-in-verse with Little Island 🧡
📍Donegal
meg-grehan.com
Childrens author (Cat Burglar and Stunt Double series) turning Fantasy writer. Loves animals, maps and word games
Author and creative writing mentor. RLF fellow. Screenwriter. Agent: Julia Churchill. Dark and stormy.
School Librarian… and all that this epic job title entails. Book fairy, guru, ninja depending on the student.
Primary School Librarian, inspiring children to read 💙📚
Secondary school librarian. Runner. Gig goer extraordinaire! 📚🏃♀️🎸(Not all at the same time!)
Primary School Librarian in Hertfordshire, UK.
Secondary School Librarian. 'Reading for Pleasure' advocate. Might make a badge? Reviewer. Former expert kids bookseller @ Waterstones/Ottakar's/Borders. Proud nerd, mama bear, creative.
Poet, author, bookseller, librarian, allotmenteer, for hire or loan. Won some poetry prizes. Account is stuff from a small rural town in NE Scotland. Seeking publisher
#FridayPoem
She/Her
https://dawnmclachlan.com/
Carnegie Medal-nominated author #ontheedge
“Nicola Garrard's writing burns with the intensity of teenage emotion” – The Observer
5 Stars – Emily Bearn
Agent: Abi Fellows DHH
nicola-garrard.co.uk
linktr.ee/nmgarrard
Author of cli-fi thrillers, children's adventure books and pantomime scripts. Published by Bloodhound Books, Tiny Tree & Lazy Bee respectively. Tennis, golf, am-dram and surfing when not writing.
https://davidbarkerauthor.co.uk
Illustrator and author of children’s picture books.
Rep’d by Luddington Creative
Picture Book Author.
Rep'd by Mandy Suhr - StoryWise
KarenSwann.com.
Other socials @KarenSwann_
MG and series children’s author looking for rep and/or ghost work. Writing tutor and mentor. 🐕🦺🐈🐈⬛She/her
Dog walking Children’s Writer and author of Call Me Lion. #KidLitUK she/her
Children’s author, poet, Rhyme Doctor, reader, former bookstore owner and library associate. https://www.patriciatoht.com/
Author. Editor. Autistic. ADHD. Sea/ trees/ food/ songs/ sky. Jessica Fletcher Adjacent. Many Special Interests. She/ her. Agent: Julia Silk.
Nosy Crow, Trapeze, Usborne books.
Writer for teens, reader of everything, chilli-grower extraordinaire
Crawling from the swamp. Writer of books for people big and small. Some about dinos, evo, space and all that, some made-up shizz (aka fiction). Favourite dino: Kentrosaurus. Views mine, all mine
Children's author (picture books and non-fiction)
www.adamandcharlotteguillain.co.uk
Artwork in banner by Tony Neal
Welcome to my BlueSky page! Thank you for visiting.
I write about the magical adventures of Magster, the intrepid Cockapoo.
Children's adventure / chapter books for 6-12 yrs old.
Silverwood Books , Troubador Publishing, SCBWI
'Our Big Day' LGBTQ+ award-winning picturebook published 2022. Currently subbing agents w/ a gay novel for adults. Husband, dog lover, cat misser, biscuit eater, previously @gutterbookshop ... he/him. linktr.ee/bobjohnstonbooks
Author of dystopian, horror, sci-fi & fantasy
Mental health rep in every book! Rep: Shannon Snow @ CMA
The ocean is my passion (mermaid in a former life) https://linktr.ee/marisanoelle77
Writing Man. Bookish Boy. Husband/Dad/Geek/Neuroquirk. AKA DM James. Devon, UK. More info and free books at >>> http://danmetcalf.co.uk/
Geordie in Essex. Children’s Author.'The Pet' Oscar’s shortlisted - Winner Coventry Book Award. 'King of the Swamp' Winner BASH'22. @MandySuhrAgent @WriteMentor Rhyming PB Course Lead.
Author and Expedition Leader. Books: The Writer’s Map, Explorers Sketchbooks, Swallowed by a Whale, Bad Apple, Blue Badger, Clive Penguin, Are Wolves Afraid of the Dark? etc. Teach by day, write by night, icebergs in my holidays. 🐧📚❄️
Author/Academic “…movingly explores the interconnectedness of our minds, bodies, spirituality and physical environment…”
MA, PhD, SFHEA, RLF / Multi-Carnegie nominee
(LFG, Chiefs)
Friendly 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️children’s author of picture books. Mama of boys and lover of cheese and pickled eggs. Come say hi 😊❤️
littletigerpress rocketbirdbooks harpercollins busterbooks hachette puffin
www.hollyryanchildrensauthor.co.uk
✍️Working Class Author Rep'd by Molly Jamieson at United Agents
📖 Agency Assistant at The Good Literary Agency
🎙 Podcaster on YA Book Jam
🎥 Host of KidLit LIVE
Writer of novels & other stuff from NZ. MG novel The Grimmelings (“Horse girl folk horror”) out now in Aus, NZ & the UK, coming to the US Oct 2025. Secrets at Red Rocks TV adaptation out 9 March NZ & US. https://www.rachael-king.com Band Pic: J Ganley
I'm an artist, musician, poet, writer, a creative being. I live in France, but born in the UK. I have written anything from horror books to a children's book. Vegetarian, dog lover, anti war maybe a bit woke Follow me if you can.
#vss365 #writingcommunity
Author, dog lover, book lover, tea fiend
Writer of children's books, musicals, plays, operas and the rest. More details at www.timothyknapman.co.uk - if you dare...
#KidLitUK
Writer, children's poet, anthologist, percussionist.
website www. brianmoses.co.uk
Blog for teachers/children brian-moses.blogspot.com
Writer | repped by Nick Turner Management
Lego City, Gigglebiz, Justin’s House, Diddy TV, Crackerjack!, Best and Bester, Big Cook Little Cook, My Petsaurus and loads of shows called Untitled
✨ HR Pro by day, #kidlit author by night ✨ Reader ✨ Mom of 2 ✨ Owner of 1 cat, named Pizza ✨ Around the world ✨ Strong feelings about plants ✨
👉 barbarapinke.com
Children's author | Ex-Publishing | MA Kids Lit | Winner of @FABAward | @thegeacademy | @scbwi | Rep’d by @bathlitagency
https://linktr.ee/mariesadulak
Children's author (Superwolf, Someone Just Like You, The Snatchabook), language nerd & mum of teenagers. I love broccoli & dark chocolate (but not together). Gower / Wales / Cymru. SoA. I will probably post pictures of my dog as well. www.helendocherty.com
Award winning children's author. 'No Ballet Shoes in Syria' 'Bird Boy'. Also writing as Cate Shearwater! Teacher too! Rep'd by Rupert Crew
Author of the Murder Most Unladylike series and the Ministry of Unladylike Activity. 🏳️🌈
Writes books, plays, comics, comedy, Doctor Who, plus children’s fiction for Bloomsbury as Mark Powers. Doctor Who novel “The Self-Made Man” out now. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/455621/doctor-who-the-self-made-man-by-who-mark-griffiths-doctor/9781405
🌻i write wurdz&muzic
AND i'M IN A MOVIE, GUYZ!
🎬🎈POP🎈🎬
& i burble into micz & indoctrinate kidz
He/Him/Cap'n/Etc.
DID i MENTION i'M IN A MOVIE?
🎬🎈POP🎈🎬
The Last Moonicorn, a poetical tale
of Martians, dark whimsy, and pies!
Launching eventually...
Award winning children's book illustrator & author. Seeks beauty in chaos. Represented by Millie van Grutten at RCW Literary Agency.
Award-winning children’s author, rep’d by Sallyanne Sweeney. 20+ books with S&S, LTP, OUP, Bloomsbury and Templar. Writer of Authorly Honest Substack
linktr.ee/simonphilipauthor
Children’s writer. 🏆Winner of Little Tiger IAmInPrint Picture Book Prize ‘23. 🏆Winner of SCBWI Slushpile Challenge ‘24. Runner-up Write Mentor Chapter Book Award ‘24. SL for Searchlight Awards ‘24. SL for Write Mentor PB Award ‘24 & ‘25 #MAWYP
Horror maven. Thanatologist. Creative Writing lecturer at Falmouth. Author. She/her, ADHD. Views all mine...mine I say!
Neurodivergent Kidlit writer fuelled by coffee and sugar, and F/T youth worker at Break Charity 🙌.
Also, the very recently made captain of Dragon’s Fury, the women’s buhurt team in Norwich😅
She/her. Rep’d by Creative Roots
Functioning chocoholic. Writer of novels for middle grade. MAISIE VS ANTARCTICA and MAISIE VS THE HIMALAYAS out now. Rep @LinaLanglee 🏴
Author, screenwriter, dog lady.
Writer of books for adults and kids: DAVID LYNCH: HIS WORK, HIS WORLD; THE WORLDS OF DUNE / GEORGE RR MARTIN, FLOODWORLD trilogy, STAR WARS, WARHAMMER. Frontman: The No Sorrows. Freelance Film & TV writer. #MDANT
www.tomhuddleston.co.uk He/Him
Professional writer, mainly of books for children and teenagers. Cat-lover, Italophile, socialist, vegetarian, feminist. More fun than that sounds. Huge backlist with RCW Lit Agency. Best known picture book Amazing Grace. Stravaganza sequence for teens.
Author of mainly contemporary mystery books for younger readers. (The Goldfish Boy and more).
(And dogs. I love dogs.)
lisathompsonauthor.com
Agent: Adam Gauntlett at PFD
MG/YA author (Bigg School, The Art of Being Normal etc). Books, whippets, dessert.
Children’s book writer & illustrator best known for illustrating Julia Donaldson’s books. #kidlit
www.lydiamonks.com
Sunday Times bestselling crime author. Award winning children's writer. Teamed up to write books with my buddy, Martina Cole. Owned by horses, cats and dogs. Find me in the land of unicorns.
Costa Award winning children’s author ASHA, TAMARIND, AARTI, XANTHE, NUSH and more! agent Kate Shaw I write magical adventures with animals and nature in them mostly @chickenhouse @barringtonstoke @walker
www.jasbinderbilan.co.uk
Author: Bloomsbury Children's, Barrington Stoke
Rep: Sam Copeland at RCW
Made of Port Talbot steel
Chopsy
lesleyparr.com
Author MG/Teen Horror & Paranormal Fiction #DeloresMackenzie
Hiker; Trail Runner; Cute dogs; Not-so-cute-dogs; Gothic Fiction; Cake; Strong Coffee; Often found in dungarees and Docs (yes at my age!)
Children’s author and illustrator of Hotel Flamingo, Big Sky Mountain and many other books. Makes things.
Author of children's books: A Dog Called Grk, The Dragonsitter, The Pet Potato, Hope Jones, etc http://joshlacey.com
Children’s writer - books include The Last Wild, Midnight Treasure and Tree Thing. Plays include Box of Delights (RSC)
Bristol-based ecologist, botanist, author, ghost writer, journalist, NUJ person, sci comms, woke Oxbridge working class scum. Into science, activism, politics, books, art, music
🦇🐛🌱🦠🇵🇸♾️
📚: @alexmorssauthor.bsky.social
Neuroscientist turned science fiction, fantasy, romance #writer. Stories in Analog, Escape Pod, Cast of Wonders, Utopia SF. Latest novel: THE MISFIT & THE BEAST, YA romance about first love & high school theater. Based in Edinburgh. verabrook.com. she/her
Children’s author. Winner of UK Children’s Book Award and Roald Dahl Funny Prize
