Leaf Journal: On Writing for Young People
Leaf Journal: On Writing for Young People. Publishing scholarly articles by children's writers in the academy. View our past issues: https://leafjournal.org/
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@ctsalaswrites.bsky.social
Adventures in the UK, Europe & California. 🤺 🚕 Bath Spa MA Writing for Young People ‘22. 📚 SL Searchlight ‘21. LL Guppy ‘22. LL WriteMentor & Searchlight ‘24. 🇺🇸🇫🇷🇬🇧
@emlynas.bsky.social
Kidlit author UK. Mostly writing funny picture books and MG. Repp'd by @ambercaraveo at Skylark.
@librarylady.bsky.social
UK based. Retired school librarian, children’s book lover, reviewer for Just Imagine. Regular sharer of children’s book news: Reading Matters https://alibrarylady.blog/ Find me here: https://linktr.ee/Anne_Thompson?utm_source=li
@mattcourtney.bsky.social
👨🏻🏫 Teacher & Curriculum Lead 📚 English Hub Lead 🚀 Interested in Reading for Pleasure and children’s poetry
@alomshaha.bsky.social
Dad. Science Teacher. Author of books including “Why Don’t Things Fall Up?”, "Mr Shaha's Recipes for Wonder" and “How to Find a Rainbow”. Lots of free stuff and more about me at alomshaha.com
@robynnhyde.bsky.social
Children's author of #kidlit #pb Editor - Debut Journeys Author of Mirror Me Member of #12x12PB #SCBWI Canadian living in the UK https://linktr.ee/robynn_hyde
@clairelinney.bsky.social
🇬🇧📚Black British history enthusiast, children’s author and avid reader of diverse and inclusive children’s and YA books.
@elnorrywriter.bsky.social
⛅️ Wellbeing/Safeguarding at an FE college 🌛 Writer 📚 2025/26 Bloomsbury contemporary MG #UKkidlit ✒️ Philippa Milnes-Smith, The Soho Agency 📝 Freelance mentor/editor 🏫 Yr 5/6/7 Author visits https://linktr.ee/elnorry_writer www.elnorry.com
@carnegiemedals.bsky.social
The UK's best-loved book awards for children & young people, celebrating outstanding writing & illustration; judged by librarians @cilip.bsky.social #Carnegies2025 https://carnegies.co.uk/ Other socials 👉 https://linktr.ee/carnegiemedals
@kimberlyjhale.bsky.social
Faculty Success Coach | Studies Higher Ed. | ASL-English Interpreter & Faculty at OkState | Am Writing | am Parenting | am living my best life.
@drmrb.bsky.social
Researching children's & YA books, authors, publishers, and readers at the University of Glasgow. Formerly @ILoveCopyright on Twitter
@anthonyeaton.bsky.social
Full-time academic, sometime writer, drinker of coffee, reluctant cat owner.
@catherine-butler.bsky.social
Literary academic, children's novelist, Japan enthusiast, Bristolian by convincement.
@lisajallen.bsky.social
Children's author. Debut MG book UNDERCOVER ANGEL out June 2025 https://amzn.to/3QmPi6q with Tiny Tree!!! Short stories: Paperbound Magazine and Buzgaga. Poems: The Dirigible Balloon and Parakeet Magazine www.lisajallen.com
@rachaelscotson.bsky.social
Writer — MAWYP @BathSpaUni. @bathnovelaward.co.uk and The Bedford Competition longlistee. Book reviewer, librocubicularist, wobbly pot thrower and owner of “officially” the prettiest dog.
@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
@lucystrike7.bsky.social
English teacher - School Development Leader Teaching and Learning
@maritcooper.bsky.social
Illustrator & Designer https://maritcooper.com Surface pattern designer https://undaunted.design
@cazapr1.bsky.social
Chartered School Librarian, CILIP @YLGLondon Committee, National conference exhibition manager, Bea keeper. She/her
@annanore.bsky.social
Writer, editor, and erstwhile shieldmaiden living in the West of Ireland. Proponent of the Oxford comma.
@philippaeast.bsky.social
Novelist. #LittleWhiteLies💛 #SafeAndSound❤️ #IllNeverTell💗 #AGuiltySecret🧡 pubbed by HQ/HarperCollins. Lives in Lincolnshire, has a cat. Clinical Psychologist by day.
@hollywebb.bsky.social
Children's author - look out for The Bold Kitten, my 60th Animal Story, publishing in January.
@reeholliday.bsky.social
Writer. Photographer. Community of Writers ‘20; KRWW ‘23; VSC ‘24. Tin House Winter Workshop’25. Apostate. www.rachaelholliday.com
@jofbooks.bsky.social
Children's bookseller, kids' nonfiction writer, wanders off into history a lot. Winchester, UK
@klslibrary.bsky.social
Busy library at the heart of Kings Langley School in Hertfordshire, UK. Posts sent by Ms Hill, school librarian.
@saralstan.bsky.social
Author of Carnegie nominated One-Button and the Sea. School workshops & events, enquiry based literacy & philosophical play UK & SA. 💕 Also have a life where music, family & stories matter.
@baileysara.bsky.social
Orkney writer. Teaches Creative Writing at UHI. Drinks a lot of tea, knits socks, hates flying.
@corinnanorue.bsky.social
prof of Book Studies @ University of Münster, Germany 20th / 21st c. book culture, publishing https://www.uni-muenster.de/Anglistik/bookstudies/ https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2490-0735
@randalljamesp.bsky.social
poetry, fiction, nature, imagination etc. Bath/Bristol. Writer, editor (adult & children’s), children’s folktale collection, Hachette 2026; illustrated non-fiction, HarperCollins 2026. PhD, Goldsmiths. Rep: Bath Lit. Agency.
@samlemort.bsky.social
Illustrator. Bexhill. Sharing music, books and anything else I find inspiring, alongside my photos and art that have nowhere else to live. Trubba Not.
@irynacranny.bsky.social
Just a speck of dust traveling nowhere. Love books, this planet and its creatures.
@nessharbour.bsky.social
Author. 📚♿️PhD. Academic. Programme Leader BA Creative Writing. Uni of Winchester. SoA. Always looking for the positive in a complicated life
@carrieetter.bsky.social
Poet and novelist, latest Grief's Alphabet (Seren, 2024) | Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at U of Bristol | Grief, trauma, and the environment | All the 🐈⬛! | Foodie | Dem 🇺🇸 expat in Bristol, UK | Insta: https://www.instagram.com/carrie__etter
@scbwi.bsky.social
Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators Supporting quality children’s books & the artists who make them since 1971.
@jadedilloncraig.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Children’s Literature @ NTNU, Norway 📚✨ Ed. Family in Children's and Young Adult Literature https://tinyurl.com/FamKidLit 📚 I love all things books and cats!
@corinnekathryn.bsky.social
Scholar of Children’s and Young Adult Literature, Fantasy, & Consent | English PhD | Cohost of Sex. Love. Literature., a Pop Culture Podcast, found at @sexlovelitpodcast.bsky.social
@kidsbookcentre.bsky.social
We support the reading, writing, illustrating and publishing of Canadian books for young readers. 🇨🇦🧒🏽📚 bookcentre.ca
@irscl.bsky.social
The International Research Society for Children's Literature is an international scholarly organization established to support and promote research in the field of children's literature. Visit us here: https://www.irscl.org/
@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
@eseaauthors.bsky.social
We celebrate & lift British/UK based ESEA authors and illustrators of all genres. #eseaauthorslitfest linktr.ee/eseaauthors
@miodebnam.bsky.social
Author & editor, Regional Advisor SCBWI HK, devoted servant to a flatulent blind dog, as well as a mum & wife. Loves animals/nature, reading, exploring & good food. Japanese/third culture kid. Geeky & proud of it! Latest book: Game Changers
@taniatay88.bsky.social
Mamma Writer Feeder, aka Crystal Sung author of Spellcasters; The Other Woman (Headline Accent) Repr. Hannah Schofield @lba_litagency, linktr.ee/taniatay
@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
@jackcheng.bsky.social
Children's author, pattern linguist, slow technologist, expert dabbler. And new dad. Building lively worlds, both real and imagined.
@senzaflash.bsky.social
author, OPEN ME (2018) chair, Antioch MFA (@antiochmfa.bsky.social) executive director, Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference (@mcwconf.bsky.social) WeHo psych mom www.lisalocascionighthawk.com
@antiochmfa.bsky.social
Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing with a social justice mission. We offer degrees in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Writing for Young People, Screenwriting, Playwriting, and Translation. Community, Not Competition! https://linktr.ee/aulamfa