UK Children’s Authors
A list of (mainly) UK children's authors (picture book, middle grade, YA, fiction and non-fiction) - part 1
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@mostlybooktalk.bsky.social
@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.
@alandapre.bsky.social
Author of 62 children's books 100+ TV eps (Brum/Boohbah) 4 BBC radio plays. I live in Scotland near Glasgow with my rescue dog Max. I do school, festival, library events. Care experienced. Latest pic book: GRIZZLY BEN about a grumpy boy who becomes a bear!
@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.
@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…
@lindsaylittleson.bsky.social
Kelpies Prize winner, Carnegie nominated children's author @DiscoverKelpies @CranachanBooks #SCBWI she/her
@garypanton.co.uk
Author of THE NOTWITCHES, out now! All the links for ordering can be found at garypanton.co.uk/books/ Represented by Rachel Mann at CAA. 📍Perth, Scotland 🌐 garypanton.co.uk
@samiraahmed.bsky.social
NYT & indie bestselling author of Love Hate & Other Filters, Internment, Hollow Fires, Ms. Marvel: Beyond the Limit, This Book Won't Burn. Next: The Singular Life of Aria Patel (5/13/25) Politics. Prose. Pastries.
@beckiwrites.bsky.social
writer of things, lover of puns 🏳️🌈 debut YA romance TART 🍓 (Bloomsbury, Aug ‘25) available to pre-order now! rep’d by ASH Literary ✨
@krahim.bsky.social
Children's author. THE DOUGHNUT CLUB out 8th May ‘25 with Nosy Crow. PFD Queer Prize ‘23 Winner. Rep’d by Silvia Molteni PRE-ORDER available - link 👇 https://linktr.ee/krahimwrites
@evemcdonnell.bsky.social
Children’s writer & artist 💫 Mama to best twins. Wonderlarker. ELSETIME 🪶 (2020), THE CHESTNUT ROASTER 🌰 (2022), THE LAST BOY 🧹 (2024)
@zoearmstrong.bsky.social
Writer of the CURIOUS CREATURES series (Flying Eye Books), FIND THE SPY (Puffin Books) and more. Working on an exciting new thing for 2025 🌱 Rep’d by @agentalicewilliams.bsky.social
@emilyanndavison.bsky.social
Children’s author. Every Bunny is a Yoga Bunny The Blue Umbrella Is It a Seed? Books with Nosy Crow, Andersen Press, Flying Eye and others Rep’d by Creative Roots Studio Never seen without a cup of tea Biscuit nibbler www.emilyanndavison.com
@laurabakerbooks.bsky.social
Children’s book author and editor represented by Jodie Hodges at United Agents. A Canadian in Wales. Working with Hachette, Scholastic, Little Tiger, Quarto, OUP & more... www.lauraannebaker.com
@eibhliscarcione.bsky.social
Poet ❤️Gaeilge. Children's writer. Teacher. WELCOME TO DEAD TOWN RAVEN MCKAY, BLACK GABLES, THE MIDNIGHT HOUSE. Rep'd by Silvia Molteni PFD eibhliscarcione.com Cork, Ireland
@serenamolloy.bsky.social
Irish children's author. 'Wider Than The Sea' Winner of the Eilís Dillon Award '24 KPMG CBI. Sunday Times (IRL) Children's Book of the Week. SL The Week Junior Awards '24. 'The Tree That Sang to Me' out now with Hodder. https://serenamolloy.com/
@oliviahopewriter.bsky.social
Dum spiro spero 🇮🇪 Irish writer of children's books. Represented by Mandy Suhr at Storywise Agency.
@joannanadin.bsky.social
Professor of writing books, Sunday Times bestseller, Manic Pixie Essex Girl. Never knowingly underdressed. She/her. Here for ALL the witches. And the pigeons. https://joannanadin.com/ https://instagram.com/jonadin
@jenniferclaessen.bsky.social
Children’s author & theatremaker. The December Witches out now!
@missdeplume.bsky.social
Hello, I’m a children’s author from London. My first book, SMALL! is out now. And so’s the sequel: SMALL BITES BACK Publisher: Everything With Words Agent: Lydia Silver at Darley Anderson https://hannahmoffatt.com/
@kakenzie101.bsky.social
Author of A Blend of Magic - out on 31st Oct, blogger, dreamer and book addict. Usually found wearing snuggly socks drinking tea. Creator of the Enchanted Emporium's witches 🎃📚🧙🫖👻 https://linktr.ee/katekenzie
@londonbessie.bsky.social
Writer type. Making it up as I go. 📖. #TheTwelve out now. Other books #TheIllusions #TheGifts & #Bearmouth. Fond of wanders. Lover of books, films, art & wildlife. Nerd.
@edwardross.bsky.social
Comic artist. Creator of Filmish: A Graphic Journey Through Film and Gamish: A Graphic History of Gaming. New book Graphic Novel Builder - The Illustrated Guide To Making Your Own Comics OUT NOW! He/Him
@neillcameron.bsky.social
✏️ Comics writer and artist 🤖 MEGA ROBO BROS 8-book graphic novel series, out now! 🍩 DONUT SQUAD out May 2025! 🤖 Represented by Davinia Andrew-Lynch at Andlyn Literary 🍩 www.neillcameron.com 🤖 buy books & ticket links: www.linktree.com/neillcameron
@metaphrog.bsky.social
John Chalmers + Sandra Marrs aka Metaphrog Author / illustrator of kids graphic novels / comics. Rep’d by United Agents. Scottish + French. Glasgow. Wilomina out Sept 2026 from Scholastic UK https://metaphrog.com
@erinliterary.bsky.social
MG/KS2 author of The 'Chumley and Hudson Investigate' series, & Co-author of 'Pirates and Pussycats' MG adventure. MG reader/reviewer, 3 chapters away from end of book 3 finale!
@celestineandthehare.com
Artist Author Illustrator Magical tales in wool and words from the little Shed in Wales. Seasonal joyful felted animals and picture books for all ages pub with Graffeg. 💛🤍💜🖤🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 https://www.celestineandthehare.com/links
@simonegreenwood.bsky.social
Writer of screenplays & children’s fiction, Lit Wales’s Representing Wales cohort 2022-23, Serial Mash author, ex teacher, bad guitar player, wannabe private investigator (she/her) 📍South Wales, via Cumbria https://simonegreenwood.com #BookSky #UKKidLit
@santhyaillustrates.bsky.social
Children's book illustrator with ADHD Rep'd by Advocate art Recent work : Taj tremble and the evil eyes Clients : Harper Collins, Maverick, sweet cherry, OUP Santhyaillustrates.myportfolio.com Instagram.com/santhya_illustrates
@susieday.bsky.social
Children's books and charity comms. Bristol, UK. Nerdy gay. Cats, food, hobbies I never do but mean to, beer. Tired. Like a nan but one who's really into trans rights.
@theheadlessbeki.bsky.social
🌸 Writer, Filmmaker ✍️ '23 Kelpies Prize Winner, '23 Searchlight's PB LL 🎬 Sylphvania Grove, Mauvaises Têtes, The Unvisited I write PB for the wee ones, fantasy for young readers, and haunting tales for former children. https://linktr.ee/rjffieschi
@jairusgirl.bsky.social
Actor/writer (Writers Guild award winner) #BBC #BigFinish #Unforgotten #BraveTheDark, Jared Harris, released Jan 2025 The Young Testament: a kids'-eye view of Jesus! "quirky, funny, immensely enjoyable" MG books The Scotch Play, histfic saltedlightly.com
@sarahwebbwriter.bsky.social
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 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/SarahWebbWriter
@ravenaguron.bsky.social
Author of THIS BOOK KILLS, CATCH YOUR DEATH, MONDAYS ARE MURDER (Feb '25) and the FARROWFELL series. Rep: ASH Literary
@hcor.bsky.social
QUEEN OF COIN AND WHISPERS and DAUGHTER OF WINTER AND TWILIGHT from The O’Brien Press | Agent: Eric Smith at Neighborhood Literary | 🇮🇪🏳️🌈 she/her helencorcoran.com
@annseilin1.bsky.social
Author of REBEL SKIES & REBEL FIRE Published by Walker Books. Agent: Lina Langlee
@whusseyauthor.bsky.social
Award-winning author of the SCOTT JERICHO thrillers (KILLING JERICHO; JERICHO’S DEAD; BURYING JERICHO) and YA novels, including THE BOY I LOVE, BROKEN HEARTS AND ZOMBIE PARTS, and THE OUTRAGE among others https://linktr.ee/williamhusseyauthor
@dc-litchfield.bsky.social
Scruffy Illustrator and author https://www.davidlitchfieldillustration.com
@finbarhawkins.bsky.social
Writer & Director Books: 'Witch', Branford-Boase shortlist, CLIP Carnegie nom'd. Latest 'Stone' pub'd by Zephyr/Bloomsbury https://t.co/uHV6Gtoeni Interactive: Wallace & Gromit VR, 'The Grand Getaway' on Meta https://www.meta.com/en-gb/experiences/wall
@victoriamadams.bsky.social
Repped by Sara O’Keeffe at Nurnberg Associates. 'The House At The End Of The Sea', Andersen Press https://www.andersenpress.co.uk/books/the-house-at-the-end-of-the-sea-2/ Art above by the lovely www.sharonkingchai.com
@katealtonwrites.bsky.social
Kids' writer, teacher, nerd. Mum of one snuffpuff. I post about writing, motherhood, mental health, and cake. OcTBRChallenge co-founder. she/her.
@sophyhenn.bsky.social
Writer, illustrator, idiot. Represented by Jodie Hodges at United Agents. For school visits please contact www.authorsalouduk.co.uk
@jamesstayte.bsky.social
Children's illustrator. Creator of Gorebrah The Mightiest Chef In The Universe! (as seen in The Phoenix Comic) He/Him.
@lucyhope.bsky.social
Children’s author. FLEDGLING and WREN, both published by Nosy Crow. Dog lover without a dog. Cat lover without a cat. Writing the next book and eating cake to fill the whiskery void. Rep @joannamoult
@kaeltudor.bsky.social
I write books for kids. Represented by Emily Talbot at United Agents. Pronounced ‘Kyle’ 🌱 https://linktr.ee/kaeltudor
@debbiefong.com
Cartoonist / illustrator / author making fun stuff at www.pommopress.com and working on books! Rep’d by Janna Morishima ✌️🇹🇼🇺🇸 🚌 NEXT STOP (Random House Graphic 2024) 🌲 WALLY’S ROUTE (Chronicle Books 2025) 🔗 debbiefong.com 📍 brooklyn she / her
@theorah.bsky.social
Pro comic artist/illustrator 💖 I like cuddling my gf and cat 😸 Mostly writing/drawing comics about autism, asexuality and French Revolution atm~ https://linktr.ee/Theorah
@jjclapton.bsky.social
Reader. Writer. Crafter 🏳️🌈🇮🇪🇮🇨 Chronically ill. Queer. Autistic It's easy to remember, I'm AAAA - agender, ace, aro-spec, & autistic. Featuring: ME/CFS, cats, crochet, f1, SFF books. My YA scifi: A STAGE OVER RUTHLESS STARS out now!
@clairefayers.bsky.social
Children's author. Fantasy and Welsh folklore. Hobbies include boardgames, piano, gardening and cooking. Owned by two cats. She/her. 📚🐱🐱
@pgbellwriter.bsky.social
Children's author and screenwriter. New fairytale whodunnit, The Beanstalk Murder, out now! The Train To Impossible Places trilogy. Waterstones Children's Book Award and Edgars shortlisted. Wales based. My stuff: https://linktr.ee/pgbell
@sarahharrison.bsky.social
Children's author from Lancashire. School of Doom out now! @chickenhousebooks.bsky.social Terry Pratchett fan. Owned by cats and dogs. Agent: Louise Lamont at LBA Books. https://linktr.ee/sarahharrisonauthor
@lisjardine.bsky.social
Children’s novelist. ‘The Detention Detectives 3: Talent for Trouble’ out Jan 25! MAWYP. Rep @lucyirvine93 Chronic. School librarian. Vegan. Tired.
@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
@finnlongman.com
Author (THE BUTTERFLY ASSASSIN trilogy; THE WOLF AND HIS KING) and medievalist specialising in the Ulster Cycle. #1 fan of Láeg mac Ríangabra. they/them | siad/iad ♿🏳️🌈 https://finnlongman.com
@fawa.bsky.social
🏆 Klaus Flugge Prize Longlist ‘25 🎃 Pumpkin Day: Boo & Belle OUT in July ‘25 ⭐ Rep'd by Emily Talbot at United Agents ✏️Children's author illustrator & jewellery maker 📧hello@fawashah.co.uk 🩷 She/Her www.fawashah.co.uk
@superhappymatty.bsky.social
Black lines & bright colours 🔸️ Check out my new series CROAKY 🔸️ SUPER HAPPY MAGIC FOREST is on iPlayer and CBBC now! 🔸️ www.mattylong.com Insta: @superhappymatty
@emmaillustrate.bsky.social
Children's book author-illustrator #kidlit MG Graphic Novel #DrawnToChangeTheWorld Picture book #AmaraAndTheBats 🦇📚🏳️🌈♾ AuDHD Loves #Bats .She/Her. Rep'd by Thao Le Website: emmareynoldsillustration.com Links: linktree.com/emmaillustrate
@sidraansari.bsky.social
Award-winning author!!- AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR!The Week Junior Award ‘23| Alumni Jericho Writers Self-Edit Bursary 2024|@Ladybirdbooks|PenguinWriteNowLive|Writing #WF #R & #PB #MG| ChooseKindness
@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
@harrywoodgate.bsky.social
Award winning author and illustrator of children’s books including Grandad’s Camper, TIMID, Little Glow and many more. They/them. Agent: @ashliterary.bsky.social Enquiries: info@ashliterary.com Website: www.harrywoodgate.com
@dansmithauthor.bsky.social
Author. Scaring and exciting readers of all ages. Repped by @elladkahn at @DKWLit https://t.co/kzpcnxfxWz
@sjwills.bsky.social
Writing for teens Author of award-winning Bite Risk series Simon & Schuster www.sjwillsauthor.com Linktr.ee/sjwills Rep. Kate Shaw/The Shaw Agency Cover art by Jose Real
@jo-clarke.bsky.social
Secondary school librarian. Author of The Travelling School Mysteries, LIBBY & THE EGYPTIAN ESCAPADE publishes Jan 25 Firefly Press Header Becka Moor. https://jo-clarke.co.uk/ She/Her
@kesalisbury.bsky.social
Author of twisty YA page-turner The Face That Pins You. Also school librarian, English teacher, IB EE Coordinator and former BBC broadcaster, choir leader and songwriter. She/her https://www.kesalisbury.com/
@sallywrites.bsky.social
MG author: Toby and the Silver Blood Witches, Max and Monty with Collins Primary Winner of the Book Bloggers' Novel of the Year Award 2022 Owned by three-legged rescue dog ME/CFS https://linktr.ee/SallyDoherty
@lucybrandt.bsky.social
Children's author. Leonora Bolt series illustrated by Gladys Jose & published by Penguin. Shortlisted for FCBG Children's Book Award 2023. Agent Elizabeth Counsell at Northbank. She/her. https://linktr.ee/lucybrandt
@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
@pollynoakes.bsky.social
Illustrator and author of picture books. Repped by The Catchpole Agency. www.pollynoakesillustration.com
@clarefurniss.bsky.social
Author. THE THINGS WE LEAVE BEHIND out now: ‘Compulsive, poignant YA dystopia’ Guardian, ‘An exquisite, devastating read’ Irish Times. RLF Writing Fellow. Agent: Catherine Clarke, FBA www.clarefurniss.com
@balirai.bsky.social
Writer, author, founding member of King Flame Sound System, reggae fanatic, Liverpool FC fan, from Leicester, GB. Made in (Multicultural) England.
@elysdolan.bsky.social
Illustrator, author and all round good egg. Lecturer on the MA Children’s Book Illustration, Cambridge School of Art.
@nicolakent.bsky.social
Author/illustrator of books for young children. Rep'd Jodie Hodges, United Agents Latest: Croc's Cooking Day, Bear's Wash Day, Measuring Me www.nicolakent.co.uk
@chaletfan.bsky.social
Author of How To Be Free, How To Be Brave & How To Be True. I also research school stories, juvenilia, and girlhood in children's books. didyoueverstoptothink.com
@juditheagle.bsky.social
Children’s author: The Secret Starling; The Pear Affair; The Accidental Stowaway; The Stolen Songbird. Published by Faber; rep’d by Lucy Irvine at PFD
@philipreeve.bsky.social
Author of Utterly Dark, Railhead, Mortal Engines: co-author (with Sarah McIntyre) of Adventuremice, Pugs of the Frozen North etc. My short film Gwenevere is now on YouTube.
@tomeaston.bsky.social
Best-selling children's author. Complete idiot. Mostly Dad Jokes. Rep. Claire Wilson - RCW. Also Production Manager at Hachette Children’s. Check out my books at https://tinyurl.com/39cc3xy5 he/him Ghostwriter. School visits. Workshops. DM for more info
@urchinette.bsky.social
Writes things. My new book, Our Song, is coming in June 2025. First book The Real Rebecca won an Irish Book Award. Latest book The Boldness of Betty, about teen strikers in 1913, was shortlisted in 2020. Co-hosts @svhpodcast She/her
@lissakevans.bsky.social
Novelist (Old Baggage, Small Bomb at Dimperley, Wed Wabbit etc), ex TV producer (Room 101, Father Ted), voracious reader, owner of an adored and ancient dog, desultory gardener, attention span of a flea. lissaevans.com
@vivschwarz.bsky.social
Author, artist, interactive stuff. Runs betonmond card games. Hopes you are mostly happy. She/they
@abielongstaff.bsky.social
Children's author of picture books, chapter books and Middle Grade. On Board of Society of Authors, Chair of the Children's Writers and illustrators Group. Posts are my own.
@franceshardinge.bsky.social
Writer of downright odd children's/YA books. Hobbies include travelling, dressing in period costume and scuba diving. Addicted to volcanoes and trying new things.
@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.
@sarahreesbrennan.bsky.social
Writer of books, drinker of tears! Carnegie nominated, Locus and Nebula shortlisted. LONG LIVE EVIL, a portal fantasy in which the villains unionise, is my #1 Sunday Times & USA Today bestselling adult fantasy debut. She/her
@ashleythorpe.bsky.social
Author of THE BOY TO BEAT THE GODS Pre-order SPIRIT WARRIORS https://www.waterstones.com/book/spirit-warriors/ashley-thorpe/9781805075653 Agent: Alice Sutherland-Hawes Senior Editor at Storymix Trustee of the Manchester Libraries Trust He/Him
@mgharris.bsky.social
Author of kid's and teen adventure/thriller books; latest YA series - 'The Mind Game'. Mama. Former mol biol. Mexican-British. Cis, she/her.
@pennyjoelson.bsky.social
Award winning Author of YA thrillers, protagonists have disabilities/health issues. @EMTeenFiction @SourcebooksFire. Rep by @AnneClarkLit Tutor @citylit
@sarahjharris.bsky.social
Author of Meet Me On The Bridge, The Colour of Bee Larkham's Murder and One Ordinary Day At A Time. Writes YA as Sarah Wishart - Four Good Liars and The Murder Hypothesis Book and charity shop lover, karate black belt!
@clarehelenwelsh.bsky.social
Former teacher, children's author, writing tutor and founder of #BooksThatHelp
@eveainsworth.bsky.social
Award winning working class author. Writes children’s books and adult romance/suspense. Safeguarding Lead. Part time Lady Stardust. Somebody I Used To Love - 2024 Pieces of Us - 2025 Loves football, fudge and fascinating fascinations.