Aussie kidlit
Australian children’s book creators or industry people.
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@miscelleni.bsky.social
@jasongent.bsky.social
2021 Shortlist Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer YA verse novel, This Season's Draft, out September 2025 (Allen & Unwin)
@zenashapter.bsky.social
I write from a castle in a flying city hidden by a thundercloud. Award-winning SFF storyteller. Writing mentor. Inclusivity. Pop culture. Nature.
@ali-stegert.bsky.social
Writer of tales. Builder of worlds. Patter of all the dogs. SCBWI QLD co-ARA | repped by PFD Agency, London
@sharonbaldwin.bsky.social
Author, publisher, designer, event producer, educator, catless child lady. Living in Australia's Blue Mountains, the unceded land of the Dharug and Gundungurra people.
@billierooney.bsky.social
Children’s writer, reader and hopeful human 📚🌈 Writing PB and MG. #SCBWI member
@kbpaperstories.bsky.social
Australian author and illustrator. Author of 'The Farmers Hat' published by Ashton Scholastic 2010. SCWBI member .
@crosby-fairall.bsky.social
Australian/American picture book illustrator and author. SCBWI Australia East Regional Illustrator Coordinator 📚Debut author/illustrator PB coming soon! Emmie Builds Something New (Fall 2025 Red Comet Press) https://www.crosby-fairall.com
@mwanasundera.bsky.social
Freelance Writer & Editor Blue Mountains, Australia 🌳🇦🇺 Author, Book Reviewer Lover of books, nature, art, travel, cats!
@allisontaitwriter.bsky.social
Bestselling MG author (The Mapmaker Chronicles, The Ateban Cipher, Maven & Reeve Mysteries, The First Summer of Callie McGee) | Co-host of Your Kid’s Next Read #podcast | More at allisontait.com
@dkmok.bsky.social
Fantasy and science fiction author of The Heart of the Labyrinth, Squid's Grief, and Hunt for Valamon. Aurealis Award finalist. Loves libraries, starships, and cephalopods. Fantastical stories with heart. www.dkmok.com Gadigal Country, Sydney, Australia
@jackieyap.bsky.social
Emerging Mystery & Picture Book Writer 🇦🇺🇵🇭🇲🇾 ✨2025 #WeNeedDiverseBooks Mentee ✨2025 #KillYourDarlings Mentee ✨2025 #RoundTableMentor Honourable Mention 🌈ADHD, TCK, dog mama, shaved iced enthusiast 📍Australia #amwriting linktr.ee/jackieyapwrites
@magabalabooks.bsky.social
Award-winning First Nations publisher based in the remote town of Rubibi (Broome), Western Australia. #MagabalaBooks 📍Unceded Yawuru & Jugan Country
@stuwilsonwrites.bsky.social
Author of THE 113th ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN and the PROMETHEUS HIGH books • Represented by Melanie Ostell Literary • He/him • Naarm/Melbourne • https://www.penguin.com.au/books/the-113th-assistant-librarian-2-lost-in-a-book-9781761347016
@eliseswritings.bsky.social
Hi! I'm an Epic YA Fantasy author & Aussie on Wurundjeri country. I post & blog ADHD, autistic, chronically ill, queer (enby, aro-ace), writing and life. Expect variety. 📚Fantasy Books & My Blog: https://elisecarlson.com 🦋Bsky Newbies: bit.ly/BskyGuide
@dranitaheiss.bsky.social
Wiradyuri Author of over 20 titles, most recent DIRRAYAWADHA (RISE UP) Publisher @ Bundyi, Simon & Schuster AU Prof of Communications @ UQ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/dranitaheiss?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=e8039df8-76bc-4e43-b07d-c57dc8bfc
@garthnix.bsky.social
Author. Many books, including SABRIEL, the five other Old Kingdom novels; THE LEFT-HANDED BOOKSELLERS OF LONDON and sequels; THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM series, lots more. And stories. WE DO NOT WELCOME OUR TEN-YEAR-OLD OVERLORD out Oct 2024. www.garthnix.com
@thebookmuse1.bsky.social
Writer, reviewer, disabled, book lover and cat lover. Picture Book Activist, kid lit advocate. She/her https://ashleighmeikle.com.au https://www.weekendnotes.com/sydney/writer/186/ https://substack.com/@ashleighthebookmuse
@drhelenedwards.bsky.social
Award-winning Australian Author on Kaurna Land. 🪶SA Literary Fellow 2025 ✨️The Rebels of Mount Buffalo✨️Legend of The Lighthouse Moon✨️On Gallant Wings ✨️The Disappearing Circus 7/25 with Kate Gordon 🪶Nature, Magic & History www.helenedwardswrites.com
@aleneart.bsky.social
Perth 🇦🇺 Kidlit illustrator, designer, needle felter, swing dancer. Seeking kidlitart representation www.alene-art.com
@emmaquay.com
Making children's picture books🖍 Rudie Nudie • My Sunbeam Baby • Happy All Over www.emmaquay.com
@tomtaylormade.bsky.social
#1 NYT Bestseller, Eisner Award winner - DETECTIVE COMICS, SUPERMAN, NIGHTWING, TITANS, DARK KNIGHTS OF STEEL, DCEASED, SPIDER-MAN, INJUSTICE, WOLVERINE, STAR WARS. Co-creator NEVERLANDERS, SEVEN SECRETS and THE DEEP TV series on Netflix/BBC/ABC.
@mandyfoot.bsky.social
Picture Book Author and Illustrator. Rep'd by @lynnettenovak.bsky.social Seymour Agency. #TeamNovak HONOUR, CBCA Book of the Year Awards 2023. SCBWI Crystal Kite Winner 2023. www.mandyfoot.com
@michaeljpryor.bsky.social
YA fantasy writer based in Melbourne, Australia. Co-publisher of Aurealis, Australia's longest running spec fic magazine. Podcast host. Gadabout.
@jamesfoleybooks.bsky.social
Kid’s author/illustrator from Walyalup / Freo, Western Australia. Bigfoot vs Yeti, Happy Barry Capybara, Secret Agent Mole, Brobot, Gastronauts, Stellarphant www.jamesfoley.com.au
@shivaun.bsky.social
Award-winning author of Summer of Shipwrecks, The Worst Perfect Moment, Meet Me at the Moon Tree, A Reluctant Witch's Guide to Magic, The Boy, the Wolf and the Stars, Tin Heart and Frankie. She/her
@lizledden.bsky.social
Kids' book author • Latest: Everyone Wants An Octopus Book! (Hardie Grant) • Gadigal/Sydney • www.instagram.com/liz_ledden • www.lizledden.com • https://lemongrassletters.substack.com/
@ailsawild.bsky.social
Writer, community arts, kids’ literature, sci-comms, ghost-writer, mentor, story-craft, collaboration. Living in Naarm
@megmckinlay.bsky.social
Children's writer and poet. Writing with heart, humour and heft, hopefully. Also alliteration, abviously. Repped by A4 Literary.
@alisoncroggon.bsky.social
I write words. Award-winning poet, novelist, critic, theatre writer. Arts editor The Saturday Paper. She/her. Living on unceded Yalukit-Willam Country. http://www.alisoncroggon.com/
@amiekaufman.bsky.social
🌈 NYT and internationally bestselling author. (she/her) 📚 Out now: The Isles of the Gods ✍🏼 Newsletter: amiekaufman.substack.com
@emilygale.bsky.social
Writer of children's books, mostly. Newsletter about writing, reading and publishing: "Voracious" on Substack https://emilygale.substack.com/
@novaweetman.bsky.social
writer of MG novels like Sick Bay and The Edge of Thirteen and adult memoir, Love, Death & Other Scenes.
@daniellebinks.bsky.social
Author • Literary Agent • Creative Writing Teacher • https://linktr.ee/DanielleBinks
@littlebookroom.bsky.social
The oldest bookshop for children in the world. Melbourne, Australia.
@juliekidsbooks.bsky.social
Aussie author of 20+ picture/info books, incl. DOG BEACH (NLA, 2024), CHEER UP, BLOBFISH! (Affirm, 2024) & ODD BODS (Lerner, 2021). Fmr. zoologist and zookeeper. She/her. #STEM #animals #nature. https://linktr.ee/juliemurphybooks
@jocaseau.bsky.social
Professional book nerd (writer, editor, critic - former publisher, bookseller). Deputy Editor, Books & Ideas, The Conversation: @aunz.theconversation.com. Co-editor, Someone Like Me: An Anthology of Autistic Writers (UQP).
@sophiebeerdraws.bsky.social
Kids author and illustrator✨☀✨ Into books and equality. She/her Debut MG 'Thunderhead' out now with A&U
@liliwilkinson.bsky.social
Award-winning YA and children's author. BRAVEPAW #1 out now! UNHALLOWED HALLS coming Feb 2025 with Delacorte 🇺🇸, Titan 🇬🇧 and Allen & Unwin 🇦🇺.
@zannilouise.bsky.social
Writing and mentoring from my little sunshine house in Australia. 40+ books for kids PB / JF / MG / YA. www.zannilouise.com Rep’d by LK Literary #kidlitchat
@fleurferris.bsky.social
@felicearena.bsky.social
Author. Illustrator. Traveller. Swimmer. Not necessarily in that order. felicearena.com
@juliannenegri.bsky.social
Library worker, writer, reader, puffed sleeve wearer - living on unceded Wurundjeri land.
@elliemarney.bsky.social
Aussie rural, NYT bestseller - people die in my books 💀 Latest: ALL SHALL MOURN🔪 Here's the fun stuff: https://t.co/ujW6HqmgSi
@itsmattstantonhere.bsky.social
Children’s Book Author / Illustrator 45 books +1 million copies sold