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12 x 12 January 2019 Check-In!

WE ARE ONE MONTH IN to 12 x 12 in 2019!! It always seems hard to believe, somehow. I fared well, both writing a new draft (and extremely rough, extremely sh*tty), and did a lot of revision. Two manuscripts went out on submission. That’s more than usually gets done for me in the height of […]

Jennie Dunham & Alyssa Eisner Henken – 12 x 12 Featured Agents February 2019

February 2019 Agents

It’s time for a new year of submitting! Huzzah! 2019 Little GOLDen Book members of 12 x 12 will be able to choose one of two agents to submit their manuscript to each month. Jennie Dunham of Dunham Literary will be accepting picture book submissions from 12 x 12 GOLD members February 1-15. Alyssa Eisner […]

January 2019 Good News!

Welcome to the monthly digest of all the great “goings-on” of 12 x 12 members. Congratulations to everyone for their achievements. This month we’re featuring books by 12 x 12 members released in January (and one that came in after our December deadline). All other good news was submitted before January 1st. Be sure to […]

12 x 12 December 2019 Check-In Winner!

Kelli here. With the busyness of registration, I discovered today that I managed to pick the winner of the December 2018, but I didn’t actually click the magic “publish” button. My apologies for not announcing our winner sooner! It’s time to announce the winner of our December check-in. Special thanks to our December Featured Author […]

12 x 12 Featured Author January 2019 – Viviane Elbee

Happy New Year, 12 x 12 Members! We’re are excited to announce that for the third year in a row, our Featured Author posts will come from our 12 x 12 community. We are so proud of the success of our members and love that we get to celebrate with you this way. Remember these […]

Meet the 2019 12 x 12 Scholarship Winners!

Let’s ring in the New Year by congratulating and welcoming our 2019 12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge Scholarship winners! The 12 x 12 Scholarship Fund started in 2014, when the 12 x 12 community generously donated funds to provide four scholarships in two categories — Diversity and Financial Need — for pre-published picture book authors. […]

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).