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Poetry:
Empirical 2026
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Siren 2022 @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
A Terrible Thing 2020
Bad Betty Press
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Neurodivergent (AuDHD). Learner. Dreamer. Award-winning children's author. Musings on books, writing, creativity and ND life. Agent: Lydia Silver
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Derry Girls meets mother in Young Sheldon. Writer. Peace worker. Guard Your Heart. Truth Be Told. Is it Friday yet?
I write books and sometimes music.
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Author of the Red Abbey Chronicles, sold to 30 countries , and Tangled Roots, published by Pushkin Press in the UK 2025
Writes audio drama and sometimes novels. Stories may involve a blue box. Likes books, dogs, tea and vinyl 🏳️🌈
https://roygill.wordpress.com
Senior Publicity Manager at Nosy Crow (views my own). General lover of books, cats, tea and Gilmore Girls.
Award winning Author of YA thrillers, protagonists have disabilities/health issues. @EMTeenFiction @SourcebooksFire. Rep by @AnneClarkLit
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Writer - Young Adult, NA, Middle Grade/ Winner of Cheshire Novel Prize for Kids 2023/ Undiscovered Voices Deputy Chair/ CNP 2024 Judge/ Likes Spooky stuff, quirky brain science, making dolls and doll houses (don't judge me).
Blue Peter Book of the Year author. Writes for children and adults, 60+ books translated into 30+ languages. Occasional ghost. Agent: Penny Holroyde at Holroyde-Cartey.
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Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
ニック PhD Zoology🔬
By day, NHM London 🏛️🐋
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SMALL WORLD out now... 🦋
DINOSAUR DESERT out this July... 🦕
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Publishing Director for Nonfiction, Nosy Crow
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WM Children's Novel Award & PFD Queer Prize '22 Gaeilgeoir. Queer, ND, they/them. Professional nerd 😎🐲
Medea in Corinth - 2nd edition 2025 from Poetry Salzburg
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🌻 Commissioning editor @ Wide Eyed Editions // UEA MALT // Runs on words, coffee and pop punk. Oh, and celestial red pandas.
These are my own views.
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Bookworm, editor, children's book enthusiast, School Library Assistant, blogger, Londoner, mum. All views my own. She/her
Author of YA thrillers Ready or Not, The Rules and The Truth About Lies, picture book My Brother is an Avocado.
Rep’d by Jo Williamson
Children's Author.
Somewhat Scottish, London based, owned by a Westie, crisp fan, she/her.
Oh, and "one of children’s fiction’s most accomplished authors"
according to @Waterstones.
Agent: jhare@theagency.co.uk / Events: @AuthorsAloudUK
Author of Chaos Walking, Monster Calls, More Than this, Burn, Different For Boys. Won a couple Carnegies and an Olivier. Four wins away from an EGOT.
Award-winning author of The Call and The Invasion. Pubbed by
@dfb_storyhouse and @scholastic. Repped by @mollykh
Also wrote The Inferior ❤️Gaeilge. Eats plants.
Carnegie shortlisted author
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Writer, reader, thinker. Founder & director of the Jhalak Prize
Independent press publishing the best new Irish writing for young readers. Supported by Arts Council Ireland. Repped in UK by Bounce Sales & Marketing.
Books create waves.
Co-host of Total 90s Recall podcast.
MA Podcasting graduate of City St George's University of London
Children's & YA book editor
Podcasts, films, TV, books ... and cats
Mostly reading. Managing Editor Books for Keeps, administrator Klaus Flugge Prize and Branford Boase Award plus other book-y stuff.
I post about folklore, mythology, poetry, children's literature, art, cats, nature and anything else that takes my fancy. Currently working on an absurdly over-ambitious "key to all mythologies", The Hidden Matrix for Unbound.
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.
Illustrator from the mud flats of Essex.
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Literary agent at Anne Clark Literary Agency, representing mostly children's and YA authors (fiction, non fiction, picture books). www.anneclarkliteraryagency.co.uk
Children’s author - You Choose picture books, and many more.
Poet, performer, children's author.
The Imaginary, The Worlds We Leave Behind, Fizzlebert Stump, Greta Zargo and others.
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www.moraghood.co.uk
Quite contrary. Writer. Down in the woods. 🇮🇪🇿🇦 Next: THE CLEANER (Transworld) Jan 25
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Associate Editorial Director @Usborne Fiction. Loves Reeses PB Cups, rhubarb gin and the fact I get to read amazing books for a living.
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Monkey-chaser, TV-talker, author, silly runner, Professor of Evolutionary Biology and Science Engagement at @uniofeastanglia (He/Him)
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Author, bookworm, Ed Consultant. Creator of CT&BT dialogic pedagogy approach. Likes: chns lit, picbooks, action research. Co-founder of NEARI. Views all mine.
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Writer, children's poet, anthologist, percussionist.
website www. brianmoses.co.uk
Blog for teachers/children brian-moses.blogspot.com
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I'm a children's poet, I love writing animal and shape poems, and the children's poetry world! National Poetry Day Ambassador. Assistance Dog Owner. Book reader. Coffee drinker. Friend. Between Bristol and Bath.
Times bestselling author. I write books for teens and books for adults. Ambassador for Women's Aid.
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 mainly contemporary mystery books for younger readers. (The Goldfish Boy and more).
(And dogs. I love dogs.)
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Agent: Adam Gauntlett at PFD
Writer, author, founding member of King Flame Sound System, reggae fanatic, Liverpool FC fan, from Leicester, GB. Made in (Multicultural) England.
MG/YA author (Bigg School, The Art of Being Normal etc). Books, whippets, dessert.
Author & illustrator of Hiding Heidi, Poppy and the Blooms, Look, Hello and Silver Linings.
Little Lion Girl written by Olivia Hope out now!
Represented by The Bright Agency.
London
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Words, pictures and plants. Author of Knitbone Pepper series, Picklewitch and Jack series. Hettie Nettle’s Handbook for Hedgewitches out now. Rep’d by Julia Churchill at AM Heath. https://linktr.ee/clairebarker
Children’s writer - books include The Last Wild, Midnight Treasure and Tree Thing. Plays include Box of Delights (RSC)
Writer of many things.
YA: The Other Girl, is coming from Penguin in May 2025.
Sci fi in the US as Evie Green
Backpack, The Sleeper and various others, back in the day (and working on more)
Screenwriting is incoming...
Freelance children’s book editor and consultant. Also plays with clay.
American in Belfast, via London and Munich.
www.lisadavisbooks.com
My cat is cuter than yours. 😺
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Author of the best-selling ‘The Boy Who Grew Dragons’ series out now. Short-listed for Waterstones Children's Book Prize She/her Rep by @jslwilliamson
Children's author. Fantasy and Welsh folklore. Hobbies include boardgames, piano, gardening and cooking. Owned by two cats. She/her. 📚🐱🐱
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.
Picture book maker
www.edvere.com
Children's author & conservationist. @BornFreeFDN ambassador & @manechance patron. She/her. THE LION CUB’S SECRET out on 9 October 2025
Writer of books and games mostly about art, mystery and murder for you and the kids in your life. Lives on a ship in Rotterdam. Used to work in museums and galleries for ages. Miss it. Addicted to Reddit and Beat Saber.
https://www.sharnajackson.com
Writer, illustrator, idiot.
Represented by Jodie Hodges at United Agents.
For school visits please contact www.authorsalouduk.co.uk
I write funny books for children and teens and sometimes I illustrate them too.
⭐️The Land of Roar
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⭐️Friends Like Us
Author: 13 Treasures, A Pinch of Magic, Twice Upon a Time, There’s A Beach in My Pants & more.
www.michelleharrisonbooks.com
Former teacher, children's author, writing tutor and founder of #BooksThatHelp
Author and illustrator of ‘Pumpkin Soup’ trilogy. ‘The Bear Under the Stairs’ The Taming of the Cat’ and many others - mainly Children’s books. Northerner living in Oxford.
helencooperbooks.co.uk
Senior PR Manager at Scholastic UK. 1/4 of Down the Rabbit Hole. Occasional reviewer or event chair. Generally excited.
Dashingly handsome author of CHERUB, Henderson's Boys, Rock War and Robin Hood.
PR Scholastic UK - FKA book pusher Midas, HarperCollins, Bonnier Books and Abrams & Chronicle Books
Bookstagram: https://www.instagram.com/exlibris_tina/
Only working class bookshop in Belfast. Specialise in used and out of print books about 'Troubles' in Northern Ireland at our tiny York Rd store. New books are at http://www.belfastbooks.co.uk with audiobooks at https://libro.fm/belfastbooks
Children’s Literary Agent at United Agents
Author of crime and YA books:
👰🏻♀️ You May Now Kill the Bride
🩸 Murder on a School Night & Murder on a Summer Break
🩷 Diary of a Confused Feminist & Must Do Better.
Award-winning Irish children's author, children’s book reviewer, book events programmer and Events Manager at Halfway up the Stairs Children’s Bookshop
Founder of #DiscoverIrishKidsBooks
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Bad at social media, better at books | Pre-order REBEL HEARTS now | Publicity: Beth Carter at HACHETTE CHILDREN'S GROUP | Represented by: Claire Wilson at RCW | https://linktr.ee/tanyabyrne
Writer, trying to work out what happens next.
Author of Silence is Also a Lie (YA love story, thriller, political dystopia), writer in residence at DaCapo music foundation. Welsh, Londoner, love books, walking, music. Occasional photos, mostly of trees.
✍🏼 Commissioning Editor, Health + Medicine, @uk.theconversation.com |📰 Freelance Columnist, bylines in The Independent, The Guardian, The New Statesman, The i Paper |📚Writer, represented by Rogers, Coleridge and White Literary Agency
Illustrator
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Head of PR at Walker books, general lover of children's books. Currently on maternity leave #2. Name and profile image inspired by Mr Oliver Jeffers
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London-born artist & researcher, a guest in Te Whanganui-a-Tara NZ. director at chroma.space, trustee w. Intercreate, convening cosmoimaginaries.com w. Astro Ecologies Inst.
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