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Webinar Program

2024 Webinar Lineup

12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge Members enjoy outstanding webinars every month. All of our webinars are presented through the lens of how the topic applies specifically to picture books. Here’s our 2024 line-up.

Karly Dizon

What Agents Want You to Know About Picture Book Submissions
Available Now

M.O. Yuksel

Backmatter: Form and Function
Available Now!

Nancy Churnin

Writing Fact Like Fiction in Narrative Nonfiction PBs
Available Now!

Ana Siqueira

One Story, Two Languages: Writing Bilingual Picture Books
Available Now

Jyoti Gopal

Advocating for Yourself and Your Work
Available Now

Katrina Moore

The End... Or Is It? Picture Book Endings that WOW!
Members Only

Stacy McAnulty

Writing Funny Nonfiction Picture Books
Available Now

Tameka Fryer Brown

Picture Book Range: Writing Across Styles and Topics
Available Now!

Sara Ackerman, Jolene Gutiérrez, Kirsti Call

Writing Partnerships
SEPT 2024

Marzieh Abbas

Using Mentor Texts to Find the Best Structure for Your Picture Book
OCT 2024

Tziporah Cohen & Estrela Lourenço

"Writing" Wordless Picture Books
NOV 2024

Hyewon Yum

Humor and Heart in Visual Storytelling
DEC 2024

Past Webinars Available for Purchase

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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).