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Mary Cummings & Jennie Dunham – 12 x 12 Featured Agents February 2022

Mary Cummings and Jennie Dunham

A new 12 x 12 year has begun and we’re almost ready to open submissions to our 2022 GOLD members! It’s your first submission opportunity of the year! Be sure to read all the posts in the Submission Station of the forum, before you start submitting. Check out each agent’s guidelines on the forum before […]

Jennie Dunham and Adria Goetz – 12 x 12 Featured Agents February 2021

Jennie Dunham and Adria Goetz 12 x 12 Agents January 2021

It’s almost time for our first GOLD submission opportunities for 2021! Our 2021 Little GOLDen Book members will be able to choose one of these two agents to submit their manuscript to in February. (If you are a SILVER member, you may use this info for research. Check out our How to Use 12 x […]

Jennie Dunham & Charlotte Wenger – 12 x 12 Featured Agents February 2020

February 2020 Agents - Jennie Dunham and Charlotte Wenger

It’s time for a new year of 12 x 12 submissions! Hooray! 2020 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 […]

12 x 12 November 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. There is so much to celebrate! Exciting to see these books come out just in time for the holidays. Be sure to have your good news submitted by the 1st of the month for […]

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 […]

Rachel Orr & Jennie Dunham – 12 x 12 Featured Agents February 2018

Little GOLDen Book members of 12 x 12 will be able to choose one of two agents to submit their manuscript to each month. Rachel Orr of Prospect Agency will be accepting picture book submissions from 12 x 12 GOLD members February 1-15. Jennie Dunham of Dunham Literary Agency will be accepting picture book submissions […]

Jennie Dunham & Stephanie Fretwell-Hill – 12 x 12 February 2017 Featured Agents

February 2017 12 x 12 Featured Agents

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. Stephanie Fretwell-Hill of Red Fox Literary will be accepting picture book submissions from […]

Jennie Dunham & Ginger Harris – 12 x 12 Featured Agent April 2016

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 April 1-15. Ginger Harris of the Liza Royce Agency will be accepting picture book submissions […]

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).