Dev Kothari

@meldarbon.bsky.social

Award winning author:ROSIE LOVES JACK: Honour Book Malka Penn Award for Human Rights in Children's Literature: Sunday Times YA Book of the Year: Shortlisted Best Book 2022 Netherlands WHAT THE WORLD DOESN'T SEE: March 2023 NeuroDiversity

@suehcunningham.bsky.social

Writing YA. Vaguely incompetent around social media. #TotallyDeceased #CloudNine both out now with Scholastic UK Rep: Rachel Petty @tbpagency.bsky.social Winner #WMCNA 2020 #UV2022

@juliepike.bsky.social

🤗Author of Flame Chasers and The Last Spell Breather. Made in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@booktrust.org.uk

We are the UK’s largest children’s reading charity. We get millions of children & families reading together from the earliest possible age.

@catwrote.bsky.social

Boiler suit addict, writer, seasider

@elencaldecott.bsky.social

I write children's fiction. I puppy-wrangle. Hoffi coffi. If there's dancing, I'm in. Senior Lecture, Creative Writing at Lancaster. Published Bloomsbury, OUP, Andersen Press. All jokes my own. She/her

@bectreveil.bsky.social

✍️ 📚 ☀️ 📸 🏕️ ✈️ 🐱 Writer. Bath Spa Uni MAWYP alum. WriteMentor Hub member. Pastry motivated. LL 2024 Searchlight Awards Novel Opening; SL 2023 Guppy MG Open Sub; SL 2022 Mslexia Childrens/YA

@swapnahaddow.bsky.social

Children’s author working with Scholastic, HarperCollins, Magic Cat, Faber&Faber, Macmillan. Writes for Oxford University Press as Swapna Reddy. Represented by Millie van Grutten at RCW Literary Agency. She/her. swapnahaddow.co.uk

@maisiechanwrites.bsky.social

🏆 Winner of the @JHALAKPRIZE & @BRADFORDBOASE for Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths 🐯 Tiger Warrior author 🔎 Very Merry Murder Club author Screenwriter @bbcwritersroom Scottish Voices. Lit Rep: @chloeseager https://linktr.ee/MaisieChanWrites

@izzybug.bsky.social

Writer for Young People, Arts charity CEO, cat person, aspiring Ribena berry.

@schoolreadinglist.bsky.social

We recommend children’s and YA books to teachers, parents, librarians and schools. https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk

@lovereading4kids.bsky.social

Find the next favourite book for the children in your life. Get recommendations and buy your next book with us. Reading books changes lives. Now buying books can change them too. Support schools through our bookstore. www.lovereading4kids.co.uk

@davidjalmond.bsky.social

Author of Skellig, Puppet, The Falling Boy and many more novels, stories, picture books, plays. Live on the beautiful North East Coast. OBE FRSL. www.davidalmond.com

@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social

Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen' Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth' Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA

@kitdewaal.com

Optimist, writer, swearer. common person. Co-founder Big Book Weekend with @MollyFlatt. Proud Primadonna. Professor, University of Leicester. FRSL. Photo by Paul Chambers. No DMs please. To email use contact@kitdewaal.com

@clareharlow.bsky.social

Writer of the Tidemagic books (and other things), bookworm, nonsense. She/her https://linktr.ee/clareharlow

@garethpjones.bsky.social

Writer of books, composer of musicals, performer of performances, occasionally EP of TV. Listen, I'll pretty much do anything for the right price. I'll clean your car windows if you're paying & I have access to a damp cloth.

@finlaysonpalmer.bsky.social

Autistic Working class 🏳️‍🌈 Writer, Artist, Editor, SEN TA & Tombstone Tourist 🪦 #AutumnMoonbeam #MegaMerle - out now! #ukteenchat #SCBWI #WriteMentor #Room204 One half of Word Witches editorial ✍️

@tiafisher.bsky.social

Writer for children, eater of chocolate, library worker. CROSSING THE LINE (Hot Key Books, 2023) Shadower's Choice Carnegie Medal 2024. Upcoming NOT GOING TO PLAN (2025) and OPERATION DOODLEBUG (2026) #MAWFYP She/her tiafisher.com, repped by Eve White.

@sarahcurriedyer.bsky.social

MG/YA Writer | #MAWFYP at Bath Spa University | Former Grade 7 English teacher | #SCBWI member | she/her

@svaniparekh.bsky.social

Writer: 📺 Ghee Happy (Emmy Nominee & Annie Winner), Netflix, BBC, Sesame Street, Cartoon Network, Disney etc 📚GRANPHIBIAN I | Dragons - Snow Problem (Oxford) ✨Flash: The Punch, Jellyfish Review etc Rep: Lydia Silver at Darley Anderson svaniparekh.com

@mostlybooktalk.bsky.social

A podcast about children’s and YA books for teachers and librarians. Interviews with authors and also anyone doing interesting reading for pleasure activities, plus lots of book talk. #kidlitUK www.mostlybooktalk.com

@booksforkeeps.bsky.social

Launched in 1980, we review hundreds of new children’s books each year and publish articles on every aspect of writing for children. Explore new issues and our 40 year archive for free on our website www.booksforkeeps.co.uk

@bookclubsinschools.bsky.social

Older pupils run the book clubs for younger ones. Our charity helps young people discover a love of reading and book chat. Teachers say our book clubs increase students' well-being and grow their confidence and communication skills. bookclubsinschools.org

@jacquisydney.bsky.social

Ex KS2 teacher, children’s book blogger and lover of undunked biscuits and Lego. Currently reading all the books. Autistic. She/her. Blog: https://worldssmallestlibrary.wordpress.com/

@jocotterillbook.bsky.social

Children's author moving into screenwriting. BAFTA Rocliffe new writing shortlisted 2023. She/her. jocotterill.com

@amdassu.bsky.social

Award-winning, former World Book Day author | Carnegie Nom x3 | Books: BOY,EVERYWHERE | FIGHT BACK |BOOT IT | KICKED OUT and 12 others from pb - teen | PublishersWkly⭐️, ALA Notable Book, a Guardian & Kirkus & Booklist BOOK OF THE YEAR Instagram: @a.m.dassu

@amiescool.bsky.social

Author. Tea drinker. Pro Knitter. ALL THE HIDDEN MONSTERS out now w/ Chicken House. ALL THE LOST SOULS out May ‘25. Agent: Lydia Silver, DA Children’s. order: linktr.ee/amiejordan

@darrenchetty.bsky.social

Welsh Indian South African Dutch Londoner. PhD in Philosophy of Education. Antiracist Dialogic Pedagogy. Children's Books. Teaching & Writing. Rep: Rachel Mann, CAA

@smritihallsauthor.bsky.social

Reader, writer, dreamer; hopist; mum; #1 Bestselling, award-winning children’s author; Books in 40+ languages. Agent: Jodie Hodges www.smriti.co.uk I’M STICKING WITH YOU series, RAIN BEFORE RAINBOWS, THE LITTLE ISLAND & lots more…

@susancahill.bsky.social

🌧THE WORLD BETWEEN THE RAIN 🌧 middle-grade children’s fantasy, out now! 🌟Longlisted for Branford Boase Award 2025 🎙️STORYSHAPED: podcast about children’s books that shape us https://linktr.ee/susancahillwrites

@jgreenauthor.bsky.social

Author of many children's books; most recent ETTIE AND THE MIDNIGHT POOL & The Boy Who Sailed the World. Emeritus Professor of Writing for Young People at Bath Spa Uni. Live at the northeast coast. Love walking, wild swimming, reading.

@mimithebo.bsky.social

Author/Academic “…movingly explores the interconnectedness of our minds, bodies, spirituality and physical environment…” MA, PhD, SFHEA, RLF / Multi-Carnegie nominee/Repped by Lydia Silver at Darley Anderson (LFG, Chiefs)

@librarimum.bsky.social

Personal Reflections on life 🕋 🇬🇧 🇧🇩 🧕🏾📚 UKSLYA 2022🏆 Yoto Carnegies Judge 2023/2024 📚 Branford Boase Judge 2025 IG: @blessed_mum_of_five

@ihussainwriter.bsky.social

Debut adult novel “Northern Boy” came out June 2024 (ABBA, Bollywood, cobbles) - rep Robert Caskie | working on debut children’s MG novel - rep Lucy Irvine @pfd | child of the 70s/80s

@jackjackman.bsky.social

Functioning chocoholic. Writer of novels for middle grade. MAISIE VS ANTARCTICA out now. MAISIE VS THE HIMALAYAS coming Sept25. Rep @LinaLanglee 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@nickysmithdale.bsky.social

Children’s author. Betty Steady and the Queen’s Orb out now!

@balirai.bsky.social

Writer, author, founding member of King Flame Sound System, reggae fanatic, Liverpool FC fan, from Leicester, GB. Made in (Multicultural) England.

@sallynicholls.bsky.social

Author of books such as 'Ways to Live Forever', 'Things a Bright Girl Can Do', 'The Button Book', 'A Chase in Time'. 'Godfather Death' and 'Yours From the Tower' out now. Lives in Liverpool with husband and two kids, Quaker, bridge-player, woolly liberal.

@meltaylorbessent.bsky.social

✨ Children’s Author: The Christmas Carrolls & Race To Imagination Island 🖥️ Authorfy Director / Host of ‘Write for Fun’ on YouTube 💌 info@meltaylorbessent.com

@susanbrownrigg.bsky.social

Lancashire lass. Children's book author. Wrong Tracks (2025) Gracie Fairshaw mysteries (2020-2024) and Kintana and the Captain's Curse (2020) susanbrownrigg.com

@pierstorday.bsky.social

Children’s writer - books include The Last Wild, There May Be A Castle and Midnight Treasure. Plays include Box of Delights (RSC)

@luwrites.bsky.social

I write books. Sometimes win awards. Crop circle chaser. Myth lover. Collector of folklore. Here for the magic. https://www.patreon.com/Writingthemagic

@gitaralleigh.bsky.social

Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doctor. Kids: The Destiny of Minou Moonshine 🐘 The Voyage of Sam Singh 🦜 @zephyrbooks.bsky.social Poetry: Siren 🧜🏽‍♀️ @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social A Terrible Thing 🧝🏽‍♀️ (Bad Betty Press) https://linktr.ee/gitaralleigh

@kclarkwriter.bsky.social

Author, Writing Mentor, Editor. Debut YA novel out July 2025 with Faber Children’s. https://linktr.ee/kclarkwriter

@alexandradawe.bsky.social

Writer and artist in Devon, UK. Inconsistent poster. Dawe is pronounced 'door'. Rep'd by @belllomaxmoreton.bsky.social The Stitchwort Curse published by @uclanpublishing.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/alexandradawe

@cathhowe.bsky.social

Children's author, creative arts, London, rep'd by Anne Clark, @nosycrow, @pearson, BloomsburyEd, HachetteKids

@lailarifaat.bsky.social

Children's author. ALIYA TO THE INFINITE CITY & ALIYA ABOARD THE TIME TRAIN out now! Repd by Lucy Irvine at PFD. Find me on insta: @lailarifaat_author Website: lailarifaat.com Buy my books: https://shorturl.at/bKjQi

@jesspopps.bsky.social

I know writers who use subtext, and they’re all cowards. Author: THE DARK WITHIN US. Rep’d by: Louise Lamont at LBA. See also: Careers Consultant; views own & not representative of employer, obviously. See more of my nonsense at jesspopplewell.com

@clairehatchersmith.bsky.social

MG Author/Speech Therapist The Mizzy Mysteries (Feb 2025 @farshorebooks Aug 2025 @tundrabooks) Rep'd by Chloe Seager @ Madeleine Milburn #neurodivergent #downsyndromeally