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12 x 12 July 2022 Check-In Winner!

12 X 12 check in winner 2019

It’s time to announce the winner of our July check-in. July Featured Author Lisa Tolin is offering a picture book manuscript critique (non-rhyming) to our July check-in winner. And the winner is… DIANE MCBEE! Congrats! Please contact Kelli at kelli (at) JulieHedlund (dot) com with your mailing address to claim your prize. Use the dog […]

Becca McMurdie – How I Got My Agent

Becca McMurdie

Research, research, research is the name of the game when you’re looking for the perfect agent. Becca McMurdie threw herself into tracking projects by agents and reading posts like this to find agents who could be a good fit. By actively participating in the picture book community, she landed a chance to speak to one […]

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).