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Rejection Raffle Winners!

It’s time to announce the winners of Rejection Raffle sponsored by 12 x 12 Member Darshana Khiani! Winners can pick their choice of book from these three options: BIG MAGIC by Elizabeth Gilbert, THE WAR OF ART by Steven Pressfield, or BIRD BY BIRD by Anne Lamott And the winners are… MELANIE KELLER with 25 rejections […]

12 x 12 December 2016 Check-In!

I am going to be honest. I don’t want to use this post to talk about whether I wrote a new draft (I didn’t) or completed a revision (I did) this month. I am feeling slightly nauseous about this being the last day of the fifth year of the 12 x 12 challenge, and I want […]

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).