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12 x 12 Featured Author June 2019 – Lauren Kerstein

Featured Author Lauren Kerstein June 2019

  Please welcome Lauren Kerstein as our June Featured Author. Lauren’s debut picture book ROSIE THE DRAGON AND CHARLIE MAKE WAVES launched last month and we couldn’t more excited for her. For the June check-in prize, Lauren is offering a picture book critique and a copy of her book. So, get those June drafts started […]

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).