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12 x 12 April 2022 Check-In Winner!

12 X 12 check in winner 2019

It’s time to announce the winner of our April check-in. April Featured Author Chelsea Lin Wallace is giving away a zoom critique as a prize to our April check-in winner. (Fiction only. Rhyme accepted.) And the winner is… HEATHER STIGALL! Congrats! Please contact Kelli at kelli (at) JulieHedlund (dot) com with your mailing address to claim […]

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).