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Julie Rowan-Zoch

Author, illustrator, bookseller, and activist Julie Rowan-Zoch grew up collecting freckles and chasing hermit crabs in New York, and spent years slicing rich breads in Germany before waking up to 300 days of blue Colorado skies. If she doesn’t answer the door, look in the garden! She is the illustrator of Louis, written by Tom Lichtenheld (Clarion, 2020), the author-illustrator of I’m a Hare, So There! (Clarion, 2021), and illustrator of Not All Sheep Are Boring!, written by Bobby Moynihan (G.P.Putnam’s Sons, 2022).

My Books
LOUIS (2020) I’M A HARE, SO THERE! (2021) NOT ALL SHEEP ARE BORING! (2022)

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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).