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12 x 12 September 2021 Good News!

09-2021 Good News

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 awards to celebrate too! Take a moment cheer on your fellow 12 x 12 members! If you have good news […]

12 x 12 August 2020 Good News!

08-2020 Award-winning 12 x 12 Writers

Friday is a perfect time to celebrate 12 x 12 member successes! All of today’s good news was submitted before August 1st. If you submitted news after August 1st, it will be included in our September post. Be sure to have your good news submitted by the 1st of the month for inclusion in that […]

12 x 12 February 2020 Good News

Award-winning 12 x 12 Feb 2020

It’s a good thing we have an extra day this month to get in all the Good News for our 12 x 12 members! Congratulations to everyone for their achievements. There is so much to celebrate! Be sure to have your good news submitted by the 1st of the month for inclusion in that month’s […]

12 x 12 September 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! So many book deals to announce this month. Be sure to have your good news submitted by the 1st of the month for inclusion in that month’s Good […]

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).