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12 x 12 March 2021 Check-In!

Hello, 12xers! I can hardly believe we are already one quarter into 12 x 12 in 2021. But I am excited for the impending arrival of spring here in CO (we’re not there yet) and happy to have more light in the days. I did revise a story this month, but did not write a […]

12 x 12 March 2021 Good News!

Welcome to our March Good News! Let’s spring into celebrating good news with our 12 x 12 members. We’ve got new books, new agent deals, new book contracts, and shiny new book awards! If you have good news in any of these four categories, be sure to let us know on the Good News form […]

Kirsti Call – 12 x 12 Featured Author March 2021

Kirsti Call Featured Author March 2021

Three Ways to Get Unstuck Let’s face it. Life has been a little odd lately. Or a lot odd, depending on who you are.  I’m about to release my second book during a pandemic. My daughter is about to do a fake graduation, (last year my son didn’t even go to his fake graduation!) and […]

12 x 12 September 2020 Good News!

09-2020 Award-winning 12 x 12 Writers

We all need a little good news for a change! All of today’s good news was submitted before September 1st. If you submitted news after September 1st, it will be included in our October post. Be sure to have your good news submitted by the 1st of the month for inclusion in that month’s Good […]

Summer Celebration #6 – More Agent Signings!

We are proud 12 x 12 parents and this is our refrigerator! More agent signing news from this year to share with you today! Say congrats to these hard working writers for signing with an agent! Signed! Here’s Who Got Agents Kirsti Call signed with Emma Sector at Prospect Literary! Hooray! Julie Ditchburn Patton signed […]

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).