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.
#kidlit author/illustrator/architect Debut PB: Betty Builds It (West Margin Press). STEM/robots 🤖
Yes, thank you, I will have another cup of coffee. Thrift store junkie. Activist/Feminist. 💙💙💙 Just trying to hang on right now. #PostcardsToVoters #crochet
Pacific Northwest author of fantasy adventures for children and teens.
I post stuff I like, and if it interests someone else, that's great. It makes me happy and gives me an outlet for my creativity. www.debcushman.com
Kidlit author! STIFLED (9/1/2026!), MUFFLED, MY MIXED-UP BERRY BLUE SUMMER. Teacher, editor, word lover. Earth fan. Tree hugger. Water baby. www.jengennari.com
Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators
Supporting quality children’s books & the artists who make them since 1971.
Author and illustrator for #MGlit #Kidlit books for Middle-Grade readers. A #NationalCartoonistsSociety and #SCBWI member. Father, husband, actor, and all-around good guy. https://papercutz.com/graphic-novels/paw-and-order/
Kiwi Author/Illustrator. Creator of Super Unicorn Princess, co-creator of Chase Speedington and (Ringo Award nominated) Squish & Squash. Repped by Davinia Andrew-Lynch.
https://linktr.ee/ScribblingMike
Writer • High School Therapist • LCSW • ADHD ✨🌈✊🏾🍉
BOUND BY FURY (McElderry, Spring ’26) | 2025 LAMBDA lit fellow | she/they | ND | BLM ✊🏾| bi 🏳️🌈 | ✡️ | 🇵🇸| Rep: Jenissa Graham @ BookEnds Lit!
https://linktr.ee/noellemonet
Writer. Professional people watcher. Messy cook. Pilot. Puzzler. Communication researcher and professor studying organizing. She/Her. Represented by Bookends Literary. www.drmalviniredden.com
Writer, artist, comic book creator. The October Girl (Book Two coming May 2026 from Mad Cave/Maverick), Amelia Shadows (Book One coming April 2026 from Papercutz), DC's Misfits of Magic, and others.
Literary agent: Moe Ferrara at TriadaUS.
💙 Children’s Book Illustrator | Mom | 2 Dogs | 1 Cat | Trekkie | Explorer of the mundane | Rep: @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social | @bookendsliterary.bsky.social
https://nicole-wong.com/
Mexican-American Author and Illustrator
'IT'S TIME FOR DIA DE LOS MUERTOS'
OUT NOW
Rep'd by: Sophie Sheumaker @ BookEnds Literary
Lilistrations.com
#kidlitart #kidlit
📮✨rep'd by James McGowan @ BookEnds
half hawaiian children's book illustrator based in Austin, TX.
maliapila.com
#kidlit
✎ Author • Illustrator • Menace
☼ Rep: @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social
⟡ www.menalkhan.com
* Debut PB coming 2027+2028 via Scholastic! *
🎨Children’s book illustrator
✨The Illustration Department & SCBWI member
🔔Available for PBs, board books, and editorial projects
🚀Rep'd by Tracy Marchini Literary
Portfolio: claryillustration.com
•••
🐌Snailing It! (Sourcebooks, Spring 2027)
🔪the guy who makes SLASHER U: AN 18+ HORROR MOVIE DATING SIM
🩸backend dev on VAMPIRE: THE TASKERADE
💪IndieCade '24 winner, NYT Top 10 bestseller, beyblade champ
✨ agent: Moe Ferrara at Triada
🔪 tl is 18+ 🔪 opinions = mine 🏳️⚧️ he/him
YA Author of DON'T BE A DRAG & FORWARD MARCH 📚 | They/Them 🏳️⚧️ | Ace/Lesbian 🌈 | Autistic & Disabled ♿ | Agent: Moe Ferrara at Triada 📖
www.skyequinlanbooks.com
Author. Late-dxed autistic. PEER GUIDE TO LIVING WITH OCD AND AUTISM coming soon from Jessica Kingsley Publishers. Utah Tolkien Society Smial coordinator.
she/her | kashmiri + arab + jewish |
writer of complex, unhinged brown mcs who reclaim history 📖
rep: emily forney at bookends lit.
she/her |🏳️🌈 | Illustration / Comics / Design
Canadian
GLAAD award Comic artist : Marvel, DC, Darkhorse |🚫AI |
Open for Freelance!
Rep’d by Moe Ferrara @ Triada
Portfolio: http://www.bailierosenlund.com
Danielle Weires. 30's. She/They. 🏳️🌈
Colorist|Covers|Comics|
worked with Abrams, Harper Collins, DC, Dark Horse
Represented by Moe Ferrara (@inthesestones.bsky.social)
Children's book illustrator, author, college instructor, and giant fan of all things picturebook.
www.davidhohn.com
Represented by @jmcgowanbks.bsky.social
🎨 #kidlit author/Illustrator from Sydney Australia
http://linktr.ee/stellaillo
Fiction Editor | Author: WAS IT A CAT I SAW? (Amicus Ink), WHEN THE AIR SANG (Annick Press), and more | she/her | Rep: James McGowan, BookEnds
https://bio.site/laurabontje
North brazilian 🇧🇷 kidlit illustrator and visdev artist for tv based in London, UK 🎡
Rep by James McGowan at Bookends Literacy
She/her
RN/author she/her, 2xGH|Former PitchWars mentor. BLM; Ava: monster romance (2x USA Today Bestselling Author); Alaya: Romantasy. Rep: Amanda Jain, Bookends Lit
Author. Middle Grade Historical fiction author. GOODBYE, MR. SPALDING; THUNDER AND MERCY (7/14/26) w/ Astra Publishing. Rep'd by TracyMarchini
Award-winning author of historical romance & romantasy. Amateur kitchen goddess. Lover of coffee. The Nanny's Handbook to Magic and Managing Difficult Dukes out 09/30 2025 with Kensington. Rep'd by Jessica Alvarez at BookEnds Literary. She/her.
Happily Ever Afters in Corsets & Cravats. She/her
He/him
Author-illustrator repped by Tracy Marchini
"Grilled Cheese? Yes, Please!"🥪🧀
"Set Sail for Pancakes!" 🥞⛵
Author. A TOWN WITH HALF THE LIGHTS ON. April 2025 on Sourcebooks. Repped by Jenissa Graham at BookEnds Literary.🧚🏻Haunted by the friendliest ghosts. 🇵🇸✡️🏳️🌈☮️🩵
Developmental Editor, Writing Coach, #RevPit Editor, MG/YA Author, Educator, and Overall Very Friendly Person.
brighameditorial.com
brighameditorial.substack.com
#RevPit is a contest for #authors by #editors with the aim of presenting agent-ready manuscripts
linktr.ee/reviseresub
Children’s book author + illustrator | 🖋️🎨BILLY AND THE HOLE (Flamingo Books 2026) | 🎨 IF MY SISTER WERE A WORM (Holiday House 2026)
Rep: Christie Megill at The CAT Agency
https://linktr.ee/jessicagoecke
We believe that books can change the world, and it all starts with our authors and illustrators.
www.bookendsliterary.com
she/her | 📚 literary agent with Prospect Agency repping kidlit authors and illustrators | toddler mom | Greater Boston Area | opinions mine
🌻
www.charlottewenger.com
www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/charlotte-wenger
📚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
Professional book pushers 📚
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/
The largest UK union for writers, illustrators and literary translators. Fighting for a fairer industry since 1884. #societyofauthors
Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training https://linktr.ee/societyofauthors
For the best children's books, look for the bear!
www.walker.co.uk
Author Illustrator, SAFE CROSSING, Chronicle Books, 2025
Ezra Jack Keats Award for Writer, How to Say Hello to A Worm, Rise x Penguin Workshop
Repped by @bookmarklitereary
Writer, Human, Author, Friend. Learn about my new course with Nina LaCour, The Business of Writing: https://the-business-of-writing.teachery.co/businessofwriting
Writer. Director. Filmmaker. Founder of award-winning children's book resource KidLitTV https://kidlit.tv and KidLitRADIO https://kidlit.tv/KidLitRADIO
📚We're an Award-Winning website celebrating children's books & reading with Videos 🎥 Podcasts 🎧 KidLit Crafts & Activities 🎨 🏅An ALSC BEST DIGITAL TOOL 🐛CARLE HONOREE
Founder: Julie Gribble @juliegribble.bsky.social #kidlit
#Korean American #Kidlit #Illustrator, #Edusky #Author, and #ArtEd (K-8). Author/Illustrator SUN, MOON, AND STAR Holiday House Spring 2026 💫 Rep'd by Kaitlyn Sanchez at Bradford Literary.
www.nmillerillustration.com
Children's Book Author-someday illustrator
Mom, Teacher, Education Advocate, Dog Lover, Book Lover
Buffalo Bills Fan, Buffalo Booster
Illustrator at Little Thoughts Press, Kidlit Author/Illustrator & Museum Exhibit Designer, Winner of #50PreciousWords, #SCBWIDrawThis & 2 #PBParty HM's.
#SCBWI #RISD
https://linktr.ee/kimwnolan
Children's author, software engineer, Tu Youyou's Discovery. Bookshop Lk: http://bit.ly/3A9071n @AlbertWhitman @BarefootBooks #12x12PB
kidlit author, fall admirer, fan of books and musicals, dancer, weather and space enthusiast, pro-spreadsheet, toy marketer, mom of two
#KidLit | #SCBWI | #12x12PB | #50PreciousWords Winner 2024| #STEM | #SEL
🇨🇦Children’s author & educator. Best day has me with ☕️ in hand, lost in nature and a good story to share. 📚www.nikkibergstresser.com
Lila Lou’s Little Library PB
Seasons for Stones PB
A Promise to Protect MG fall 2025
KidLit author/illustrator- PB, JF, MG, animal, nature lover, SCBWI, 12x12PB, CBI, ICWA BS Environmental Sciences and Territorial Management.
www.eleanorannpeterson.com Jurassic Rat '2019
Picture Book Creator, PBParty Finalist '25, Kidlit Writer, Passionate Reader, Lover Of All Things Books & BBQ, #SCBWI, Artist-in-Training, Friend, GoldenDoodle Mom
janycampana.com
Kidlit Writer #PB #SCBWI #kidlit #12x12 SpringflingKidLit '24Winner, 50PreciousWords '24Winner, ‘25HM
#Kidlit author | #pbrisingstars 2024 mentee | #PBParty 2023 Honorable Mention | #SCBWI | #12x12 | #amquerying |
Writer pub’d in WBUR Cog, Boston Globe, LA Times, Japan Times, Princeton Alumni Weekly, Friends and Anemones. Olympic Short Track Speedskating Mom. #SCBWI #12x12PB
Writer, weaver, quilter, traveler, photographer, book lover
Works at authoring and illustrating. Bibliophile through and through. Lover of outdoors, animals, the underdog and both classic and modern children’s lit.
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
Special education preschool teacher, mom of 2 littles and a rescue dog, ECE blogger, and aspiring PB writer
www.tenderheartedteacher.com
IG: @tenderheartedteacher
#scbwi #12x12challenge #kidlit #pb #writingcommunity #preschool #earlychildhood
Bossy little bluebird. Former bookseller. Sometime children’s publishing person. Hamline MFAC ‘24. Currently querying. http://jessedoogan.substack.com
Librarian in sort-of Chicago.
PW book reviewer.
#Amquerying #SCBWI writer/poet.
Winner: #50PreciousWords, Highlights scholarship, ElegantLit, IAmWritingMG.
HM: #PBParty.
WTMP mentee, RisingTalent finalist, BOTN.
https://linktr.ee/tracie.renee
Budding picture book writer.
CANSCAIP '25 Long List (x2)
#PBParty '25 Honorable Mention.
Trivia nerd. Would do anything for my cats.
Victoria, BC.
Retired Library Girl. Writing. Reading. #amquerying #kidlit #SCBWI #writingcommunity #pbparty
Poems in Highlights, Spider, The School Magazine, & The Dirigible Balloon. University staff writer. Wife of Eric and mom of ages 10 and 5.
Author-Illustrator. Cincinnati OH. #SCBWI member. #12x12 member
Portfolio: http://www.OlgaSmithIllustrator.com
#kidlitart #kidlitillustrator
this is just a momentary ripple in the stream
work stuff:
www.headwaterliterary.com
www.printrunpodcast.com
www.erikhane.com
Literary agent @ DMLA. Clients incl Cassandra Khaw, Premee Mohamed, Darcie Little Badger, Nick Mamatas, Vajra Chandrasekera, Suzan Palumbo, Simon Jimenez, and Thomas Ha. He/him, anarchist & antifa
[closed to queries]
http://maassagency.com/michael-curry
Literary agent. EVP at Donald Maass Literary Agency. Saving the world, one book sale at a time. (she/her) http://maassagency.com/jennifer-jackson/
literary agent at helm literary
website: clairemharris.com
more links: linktr.ee/claire_m_harris
Literary agent at the David Black Agency and author of The Hunter (Putnam 2023) and Siren Says (Putnam 2026).
literary agent | the bindery agency | 📍pa | school board director | swiftie 🫶🏼
Literary Agent for Harvey Klinger Inc. Concert addict. Need more cowbell.
literary agent at The Caldwell Agency, professional cheerleader of books and authors & huge virgina woolf fangirl, amongst other things…
website + publishing blog: noursallam.com
all other links: https://bio.site/noursallam
associate literary agent at P.S. Literary Agency. writer. jd. horror lover. she/her.
Literary agent at Azantian Literary Agency; constantly mortified by the ordeal of being known. Don't buy books from Amazon. she/her
www.romapanganiban.com
agent at The Friedrich Agency | pronounced marine (like marine biology) 🐳 | she/her/hers
https://linktr.ee/marintakikawa
Senior literary agent, professional snacker.
@bookendsliterary.bsky.social
www.jmcgowanbooks.com
he/him
Header art by David Hohn
Former junior literary agent📚
She/Her/Ella. 🇵🇷
Editing Services: editingtales.com
Misc: linktr.ee/amandacarbonell
Literary Agent/Deputy Assistant Store Manager/Writer.
Doing my part for Donald Maass Literary Agency, Barnes and Noble, and murders in space.
https://maassagency.com/anne-tibbets/
associate agent @ Sanford J. Greenburger Associates | simply existing | she/her
https://www.greenburger.com/hannah-strouth
https://www.manuscriptwishlist.com/mswl-post/hannah-strouth/
Lover of books and pop culture. Huge nerd about way too many things. Disabled.
she/her. associate agent @ Azantian Literary Agency and SFF writer. former health policy prof. ✡️. Hoyas 🏀. Nationals ⚾️. Recovering Nagano '98 apologist 🥈⛸.
https://linktr.ee/mara.hollander
https://namedrop.io/marahollander
He/Him / Literary agent at Sterling Lord Literistic, Inc. / PhD in American Literature / dog (Violet) and cat (Poppy) dad / Open to queries! 📚
https://www.sll.com/our-team
a boricua🇵🇷 who has never met a tangent she wouldn’t follow | on Insta/Threads: evascalzo_sla | agency director & senior lit agent @ Speilburg Lit | AALA & SCBWI | she/her/ella
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
DC-based literary agency | where stories find their path | founder @jessicaberg.bsky.social
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!!!!
Agent with 3 Seas Literary and author whose reviews include "ok" and "arrived in great condition." threeseasagency.com Closed to queries.
Currently reading: Say You'll Remember Me by Abby Jimenez.
Literary Agent at Spencerhill Associates • YA writer • Lover of all things Disney and chocolate
Literary Agent with Howland Literary
Author as Mackenzie Carson rep’d by Weaver Literary
ELA Teacher
Has too many chickens 🐔
🏳️🌈 she/her/they/NB
literary agent at trellis literary management 📚
📚 Indie bookstore in Winsted, CT
🐈 Fostering through Sophia L'Orange Kitten Rescue
📖 Curation, expertise & a place to meet bookish friends
👩 Woman-owned
curiouscatbookshop.com
Author, lawyer, devourer of caffeine and chocolate
Out now: GHOUL SUMMER 👻📚
www.tracybadua.com
Director of Kidlit at The Seymour Agency
