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Elaine Kiely Kearns

Elaine Kiely Kearns is a picture book and middle-grade author and the founder of the children’s writing website, KidLit411. Armed with a master’s degree in Education and working from her home office, she spends her time perusing the internet for golden nuggets of information about children’s writing and creating her own stories. Her debut picture […]

Carrie Finison

Carrie Finison began her literary career at the age of seven with an idea, a box of markers, and her father’s typewriter. She now writes on a laptop, though an old Underwood #5 still sits on her desk. She writes picture books with humor and heart, including Dozens of Doughnuts (Putnam, 2020), a Junior Library Guild selection; […]

Carol Munro

Carol Joy Munro

Carol Munro’s former career was in advertising/marketing, but now she does the really important work of writing for kids. Carol believes kids need our books, not only as a way to understand their own experiences but for sheer pleasure, too. Her focus is on picture books, but she also writes poetry and prose for all ages. Even […]

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).