Senior #editor at DarlingAxe.com. Award-winning #author, Ironman #triathlete. michellebarker.ca
making lives better, making better lives, for everyone. retired #mentalhealth professional #haiku #peace #writingcommunity #buddhism #pagan #longcovid. old. they/she.
unceded, traditional, ancestral musqueam, squamish & tsleil-waututh lands aka vancouver.
Author & illustrator of many kids books and maker of Swiftie bracelets.
📖 New book THE MOST MAGNIFICENT TEAM out May 6th!
💎 Next bracelet restock in late August
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#Kidlit author 🇨🇦. #picturebooks Editor and story coach. Forest of Reading nominee. Co-founder Picture Books, Eh! Upcoming: JACKIE'S DRAWING (2025) LITTLE HEARTS IN THE SNOW (2025). Recent: A STARLIT TRIP TO THE LIBRARY (2022). andrewkatzbooks.ca. He/him
We write, illustrate and support Canadian, and we’re releasing our seventh year of picture books in 2026. Follow us for news about 🇨🇦 PBs, blogs by 🇨🇦 PB creators and more, eh!
Website: https://picturebookseh.weebly.com
Dad. Husband. Illustrator and author of books. 2018 Caldecott Medalist.
💻 Editor. Professional Member of CIEP.
💞 Author of contemporary romance and romcoms with heart, heat & HEA.
💜 WIP: Hearts Adrift.
🧠 Neurodivergent.
Writer, lover, campervanner, eejit.
Tipsy author of KILL SEQUENCE and other unread things.
Coming soon: PREFIGUREMENT.
Comic Artist | Author & Colorist based in Argentina.
Portfolio > https://linktr.ee/mitomante
Commission open!
Kid Lit Author | Math Enthusiast | Education Consultant | Ice Cream Lover | 12x12 and SCBWI Member | Rep’d by Saba Sulaiman, Talcott Notch Literary Services
Author of DEAR MATH, WE’RE NOT FRIENDS (Beaming Books 2026)
www.linahaldar.com
Comic-adjacent storyteller for all ages. I love taking stories from the page to the stage and connecting with readers and live audiences. From children's literature to personal essays, I love it all! www.lisatrank.com
literary agent with a lot of opinions 👀 also a podcast 👀 also my puppy looks like baby chewbacca! www.jenniferlaughran.com / www.andreabrownlit.com
Writer Dreamer Hiker; Lover of Words, Truth, Possibility; Author of My Soccer Season-2023, My Race Car Brain-2025. #CANSCAIP #SCBWI #ADHD Lyrical Language Lab Graduate
THE MANY MISFORTUNES OF EUGENIA WANG (‘25 JLG Selection, Fall #2025debuts)
@SCBWIRockyMtn.bsky.social member
#kidlitartinstructor at cuddlefishacademy.com
#aapi #rosebudauthor
Rep: @annmrose.bsky.social at @thetobiasagency.bsky.social
stanyan.me
Father • Artist • Proud Canadian🇨🇦 • Comic Book Collector • Sci-Fi Aficionado • Cartoon Enthusiast • Die-Hard Canucks fan!!
Owner at www.mythictexture.com // @mythictexture
Portfolio: www.akemiart.ca // info@akemiart.ca
Artist, Writer, Designer. Illustrates children's books, designs & paints for animation, publishes short stories.
#SCBWICanadaWest Co-ARA, Edmonton, AB, kidlit writer, reader, traveller. Family, Faith and Friends 🙏🇨🇦 rare disease advocate: LMS cancer, Batten Disease, 4P-
Kidlit writer, teacher, picture book reviewer, SCBWI member, SCBWICanadaWest member, Canadian Children's Book Centre member, CANSCAIP member
writer & artist
IG: AlexDiStasi_art
alexdistasi.my.canva.site
seeking representation
Writer/Illustrator. Loves GNs, humor & cats. She/they. Nonbinary, Bi & Fibro. 🌈#12x12PB
www.daniduck.com
Author of Big Blue Forever | Writer Illustrator| kids books | SCBWI 🇨🇦
Author-Illustrator
Shares: Writing, Illustrations, Comics —Birds, Pets, ART
Home: BC Canada From Ontario
E: nicole@westcoastfloraandfauna.ca
IG: https://www.instagram.com/nicole.anne.walker?igsh=OWc0cHMwMDRqM2h4&utm_source=qr
MG Writer, KidLit, SCBWI, Signed Ink
Rep’d by Metamorphosis Literary Agency
Poet, Picture Book author, and Nature educator. IF A BUMBLE BEE LANDS ON YOUR TOE, Picnic Heist. BUTTERFLY SEA is available for pre-order with Tielmour Press, #SCBWI #Edusky #CANSCAIP #CWILLBC
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www.booksbycindy.com
https://linktr.ee/Cynthiamackey
(She/her) 🐷🇨🇦 #kidlit illustrator, pig lady enthusiast, tea drinker and book reader. Currently working on my 5th childrens book! 🧚♀️
🎨Portfolio:
billieblueart.weebly.com/illustration.html
IG: @billieblueart
#SCBWICanadaWest #CANSCAIP
Reader, writer, editor. YA author of Badass(ish). jaymieheilman.com
I write books about teens and adults with big hearts. I often write about climate and environmental subjects, and was a historian of Peru in my first career.
Viet-Canadian illustrator, writer, multimedia artist, general goblin.
Treaty 1 territory. Queer, ND. She/they. https://tiffbartel.com
#SCBWI #SCBWICanadaWest @cartoonist.coop
✦ I'm Cat ✦ she/her ✦ 44 ✦ neurodivergent
✦ Portuguese-Canadian Kid Lit Illustrator
✦ Rep'd by The T2 Agency
✦ 📍 in Portugal
✦ Book a Portfolio Review ⤵️
catarinaoliveirastudio.com
✦ instagram.com/catarinaoliveirastudio/
#KidLitArt #illustration #kidlit
Welcome to SCBWI Canada West on Bluesky social! Let's connect together to the world of children's literature.
Kid lit illustrator and writer, educator, and outdoorsy girl.
Rep’d by @essiewhite.bsky.social at Essie White Literary
www.annelyso.com
https://markcoakleybooks.com/
#HamOnt
■BOY Mom ■Wife ■ #SCBWI ■Writer 📚 #WIFYR (Writing & Illustrating for Young Readers) BOOK CLUB Host 📋 President VZC Library Board 📒 #WritingCommunity #12x12PB
Picture-book author/illustrator. #SCBWI Canada West Co-ARA.
deborahpaquette@shaw.ca
deborahpaquette.com
Reader, Writer, #KidLit, 12x12,
📕METIS LIKE ME Tundra Books
📗LIGHTS AT NIGHT Tundra
📙MINI GOLF FUN Random House 2026
📘Candlewick 2027 TBA
📕Kids Can Press 2027 TBA
Rep’d by Rachel Orr at Prospect Agency
Kidlit Author/Illustrator
☔️ SOAKED!
🚗 ANIMALS GO VROOM!
🐻 WOMBATS ARE PRETTY WEIRD
🦩 FLAMINGOS ARE PRETTY FUNKY
🐹 THE QUIET FOREST
https://www.abicushman.com | Newsletter: https://www.abicushman.com/join-my-email-list
I’m a picturebook illustrator & artist who love to draw whimsical animals and stories. For purchasing my greeting cards & art prints please follow link in bio!
Portfolio: www.mhbabin.com
Bio link: https://bio.site/mhbabin
Newsletter: http://bit.ly/4r0Sh4t
🍂 Dog mom. Plant mom. Betta mom. Your daddy. 🍂
I write books that I keep buried in drawers.
📍 ATX
she/her
Children's Book Author/journalist/photographer/ library media specialist. JACKIE AND THE BOOKS SHE LOVED.Maggie Mae Pup Reporter #SCBWI #12X12 #ALA #ALSC #ALSC https://ronnidiamondstein.com
#KidLit author | Retired library media tech | #SCBWI | #12x12 #pb | Mamá | Wife | Lowrider lover | Pan Dulce connoisseur | 🇺🇸Chicana🇲🇽 | Rep’d by Leah Pierre - Ladderbird Literary Agency | lauraadelacruz.com | https://linktr.ee/laura_delacruz
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Constantly curious, chai-drinking award-winning children's book author, poet, and aspiring illustrator.
📕Excited for Eid (LBB, 2024)
📙Friday Fun (LLB, 2024)
📘Aarzu All Around (S&S, 2025)
📗The Camel Library (F&F, 2025)
📕Radiant Ramadan (LBB, 2025)
Picture Book author & Founder, #12x12PB @12x12challenge.bsky.social & co-founder @pbsubmissions.bsky.social. SONG AFTER SONG: Julie Andrews Bio (2023, little bee), OVER, BEAR! UNDER, WHERE? (2021, Philomel) juliehedlund.com
Canadian Voice Actor | Young Adult Femme, Teen Femme, Child Masc and Femme Characters | Conversational Commercial Voice
📧 briebullvo@gmail.com
Writer. Literacy Coach. Lover of people and words. #SCBWI #KidsChoiceWinner -'24 #KidLitVibesWinner-'23 #50PreciousWordsHM-'23, '24 Pub'd in @DirigibleBalloon-'25, '26
TRICKY CHOPSTICKS {‘24 @SimonKIDS} 🌟 SPARKLES FOR SUNNY: A Lunar New Year Story {‘25 @PenguinKids} 🌟 #SCBWI #12x12PB #PBParty #PBRisingStars #PBStudyBuddy Rep: @AgentHenkin 💜 food +☕+ writing STEAM PBs
Art • author • illustrator • comics • crowdfunding
NYC born 🇵🇷 Bay Area resident — PLUGOarts.com MMC winning graphic novelist of aTigersTale.com
A KISS OF HAMMER & FLAME 📘 Out now!
A CROWN OF BLOOD & MAGICK 📕 15 Sep 2026
(Canelo, DK, Penguin Random House)
Whimsigoth #SpecFic writer. She / her 🇦🇺 🏳️🌈 🇬🇧
SL: Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize 2024
Rep: PFD London
https://linktr.ee/amydelaforce
Author/ Illustrator | Toy Inventor | Sarcasm Queen | Pursuer of Creative Ideas | Constantly Spiraling Down Some Rabbit Hole
🇨🇦 Kidlit author & illustrator. Illus books by Judy Blume, Michael Ian Black, others. Current goal: debut MG author 🤞🏽
📚 I WANT TO READ *ALL* THE BOOKS
🎨 I'M BUSY (w/ Michael Ian Black, 2026/02/24)
DebbieOhi.com @work.debbieohi.com
internationally bestselling MG author #bannedbyrussia. Kidnapped from #Ukraine trilogy: Under Attack, Jan 2025, 2: Standoff, fall 2025, 3: Still Alive, April 2026. Scholastic. Agent: Ron Eckel, CookeMcDermid www.calla.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
Professional illustrator & comics maker | AMU / :01
Here to hang out with my people; are you my people? Are you people? Let's hang
she/her/dude is a-ok 💗💜💙 ∅
This acct posts mature stuff! no minors pls
https://lnk.bio/roricomics
Writer. Likes to rhyme, though not when writing movies or novels. But you should see my shopping lists! Has never bought an orange. #kidlitchat cohost for 14+ years on ex-Twitter (and now here on Tuesday nights at 9 PM EST!). Still bats and throws righty.
Writing, filming, doodling, noodling (ideas, not catfish) for kids all day long.
Activities for K-5 👉 sarahgilesbooks.com
Kids Comics 👉 coretoons.substack.com
Crew @ kidscomicsunite.com.
Indie Gamedev Artist
Webcomics: Amphiox, RAWR! Dinosaur Friends
They/she
hello@hmcgill.art
http://hmcgill.art
Do NOT use my art to train AI
