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12 x 12 September 2020 Good News!

09-2020 Award-winning 12 x 12 Writers

We all need a little good news for a change! All of today’s good news was submitted before September 1st. If you submitted news after September 1st, it will be included in our October post. Be sure to have your good news submitted by the 1st of the month for inclusion in that month’s Good […]

Meet the 12 x 12 2020 Scholarship Winners!

Let’s ring in the New Year by congratulating and welcoming our 2020 12 x 12 Picture Book Writing Challenge Scholarship winners! The 12 x 12 Scholarship Fund started in 2014, when the 12 x 12 community generously donated funds to provide four scholarships in two categories — Diversity and Financial Need — for pre-published picture book […]

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).