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November Featured Author Costantia Manoli reveals barriers, breakthroughs, and how winning the 12 x 12 Diversity Scholarship led to success.

Please welcome Lane Clarke of ArtHouse Literary and Sandra Proudman of Gallt & Zacker Literary as our 12 x 12 November 2023 Featured Agents.

Time to celebrate your October goals! Enter to win a 30-minute Ask Me Anything call with Featured Author Srividhya Venkat!

12 x 12 member Hilary Margitich shares how her hard work paid off when she landed her agent Jonathan Rosen at The Seymour Agency.

Time to announce the winner of our September 2023 check-in. Our prize this month comes from Featured Author Janet Sumner Johnson.

12 x 12 member Khushboo Patel takes us on her journey to finding her new agent, Joyce Sweeney at the Seymour Agency.

October Featured Author Srividhya Venkat shares how to embrace your inner critic and let it motivate you to picture book writing success!

It's your last chance to grab this year's Back-to-School bundles before they go back to regular price! Get ready to level up your writing!

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).