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12 x 12 Monthly Check-In Winner

Have you checked in for May? Featured Author Suhasini Gupta is offering a PB critique (non-rhyming, under 600 words) or a 15-minute AMA Zoom!

Danya Vasquez David How I got my Agent

Danya Vasquez David inspires others with the story of her pursuit of finding and signing with an agent--her dream agent.

Elayne Crain Featured Author

Elayne Crain offers some advice on how to harness our inner raccoon(s) to get our picture book manuscripts written, polished, and published.

Our Agents of Summer are here! Find out more about Alyssa Eisner Henkin of Birch Path Literary and Jennie Dunham of Dunham Literary today.

May 2025 check in

Did May bloom for you? Tell us how in the May Check-in, and you may win your choice of prizes from May's Featured Author Suhasini Gupta!

Megan Woodward How I got my Agent

When the first agent didn't work out, Megan Woodward dug in to find another. She shares how her do over became a done good!

12 x 12 Monthly Check-In Winner

Have you checked in for April? Featured Author Alison McGauley is offering a copy of KENZIE’S LITTLE TREE (US or Canada) to one lucky winner!

Lee Brockman How I Got My Agent

The personal connections Lee Brockman made within 12 x 12 and the industry meant everything to her on her journey to find an agent.

Financial Need Scholarship Guidelines

All applications will be accepted via email only between November 1, 2024 – November 30, 2024 at kelli@juliehedlund.com.

Subject line of the email:

  1. 12 x 12 Financial Need Scholarship
 

Please include the following in the body of the email:

  1. An autobiographical statement and career summary in 250 words or fewer.
  2. A short statement describing the nature of the financial need/circumstances in 250 words or fewer.
  3. A sample query letter for the manuscript you are submitting with your application.
  4. Pitches for two additional completed picture books.
 

 Attached to the email:

  1.  The full text of one picture book manuscript, attached as a Word document named as FIN_YourFirstName_YourLastName_Title_of_Manuscript.doc (or docx).