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12 x 12 May 2025 Check-In Winner!

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Marvelous! We have a May Check-In Winner! Featured Author Suhasini Gupta is offering one lucky member their choice of a picture book critique (non-rhyming, under 600 words) or a 15-minute Ask Me Anything Zoom!

Thank you, Suhasini!

And the winner is…

Marilyn Devries!

Congratulations, Marilyn! Please contact kelli@juliehedlund.com with your mailing address!

What do you hope to accomplish in June? Enter to win June’s check-in from July 1 through 7. Grab those June goals and go for it!

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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).
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