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How much did you accomplish in June? Tell us about your progress and check in for a chance to win a prize from Tasha Hilderman.

Discover more about July Featured Agents Sera Rivers of Speilburg Literary Agency and James McGowan of BookEnds Literary.

12 x 12 member Celina Kamler takes us along the long and winding road that let to agent Shari Maurer at Stringer Literary Agency.

Featured Author Kari Lavelle shares what she learned creating BUTT OR FACE? and ODE TO GRAPEFRUIT: HOW JAMES EARL JONES FOUND HIS VOICE.

12 x 12 member Kelly Bookamer lets us peek behind the curtain of the journey that led her to agent Kelly Bergh of Lucinda Literary.

Time to reveal the winner of our May 2024 check-in. Our prize this month comes from May Featured Author Thelia Hutchinson.

12 x 12 member Hannah Lorenzo reveals her view from the querying trenches and how it led her to agent Kaitlyn Sanchez at Bradford Literary!

For Featured Author Tasha Hilderman, learning about her Indigenous ancestry wasn’t easy so she wrote MÉTIS LIKE ME for kids today.

Financial Need Scholarship Guidelines

All applications will be accepted via email only between November 1, 2024 – November 30, 2024 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).