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Get to know Emily S. Keyes of the Keyes Agency and Karly Dizon of Fuse Literary, our 12 x 12 Featured Agents for July 2023.

Time to announce the winners of our April & May 2023 check-ins. Authors Christine Evans & Rebecca Gardyn Levington have prizes up for grabs!

Laureanna Raymond-Duvernell gets into the nitty-gritty of finding her agent Stefanie Molina of Ladderbird Literary.

Anne Cavanaugh Sawan shares her path to signing with agent Mary Cummings at Great River Literary.

Get to know James McGowan of BookEnds Literary and Sera Rivers of Speilburg Literary, our 12 x 12 Featured Agents for June 2023.

June Featured Author Gabriella Aldeman shares four tried-and-true revision tips that help her punch up her stories.

Time to tell us about your achievements this month and enter to win a prize from May Featured Author Rebecca Gardyn Levington!

2022 12 x 12 Scholarship winner Sabrina Shah shares her journey to signing with Regina Bernard-Cerreno of Ladderbird Literary.

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).