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12 x 12 October 2016 Check-In Winners!

It’s time to announce the winners of October’s check-in. Our October Featured Author Lauri Fortino has generously offered up six prizes this month! And the five winners of a signed copy of The Peddler’s Bed are… RAJANI LAROCCA! REBECCA KOEHN! MEGAN WHITAKER! KAREN CONDIT! KATHY CORNELL BERMAN! The winner of a picture book manuscript critique […]

Financial Need Scholarship Guidelines

All applications will be accepted via email only between November 1, 2023 – November 30, 2023 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).