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12 x 12 December 2017 Check-In!

Wow. The end of another year of 12 x 12. Tomorrow we’ll start a new one. Hard to believe and always bittersweet. Mostly I just want to say how proud I am of all of you and remind you how much you mean to me. I wake up each day knowing you’re there, and it […]

12 x 12 November 2017 Check-In Winner!

It’s time to announce the winner of our November check-in. This month, one winner will get picture book manuscript critique from our November Featured Author Carter Higgins. And the winner is … CHANA STIEFEL!   Congrats! Please contact Kelli at kelli (at) JulieHedlund (dot) com to claim your prize. Remember, if you write 12 drafts […]

12 x 12 Featured Author December 2017 – Marcie Colleen

Wow! Is it December already? Where does the time go? It certainly has been an honor to be your Friday Dance Captain these past weeks and now I get the added honor of being the Featured Author this month. I thought long and hard about this post. I contemplated sharing some last minute, “do-this-before-the-year-ends” advice. […]

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).