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GOLD members! It’s November, which means it’s the last month of the year to use your 12 x 12 submission opportunity. (In December, we’ll send information on how to renew your GOLD membership for 2022.)

Before October ends, we’ve scared up 11 new 12 x 12 books to party with! Plus, we get to treat our members by celebrating their new agent signings, new book deals, and new awards! No

It’s time to announce the winner of our September check-in. September Featured Author Nadia Salomon is giving away prizes to three lucky winners! One winner will win a copy of GOODNIGHT GANESHA. Another winner will

Hello, friends! As someone who joined 12 x 12 in 2017 and has enjoyed these monthly author posts ever since, it feels a little surreal to be this month’s featured author! Since these posts usually

GOLD members! It’s almost October. Here are your Featured Agents for the new month! Our 2021 Little GOLDen Book members will be able to choose one of these two agents to submit their manuscript to

Can somebody please explain to me how it is the end of September? I feel like I just got back from Italy (and dropping my daughter off at school) yesterday, even though that was August

It’s time to fall in love with new 12 x 12 books! We have 14 new 12 x 12 books to celebrate this month! FOURTEEN! Plus, we have agent signings, book deals, and some amazing

When a charter 12 x 12 member (that’s means they’ve been a member since 2012!) gets an agent, this is our first reaction: via GIPHYFollowed by pure celebration: via GIPHYAnd this post is our chance

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).