Reverie: Patricia’s Blog
Open Windows
Bob offers us this prompt for February: When God closes one door He opens another. It is up to us to recognize that new door and go through it. So I've been thinking about windows and doors...The last time I attended a Good Friday service a deacon gave one of the...
Persistence
It's PoetryFriday! Want to know more? Click here. Jan at bookseedstudio hosts our round up of all things poetry this weekend. Join us!Our poetry friend and one of my Nevermores partners, Marcie Flinchum Atkins has a new book coming out March 4th! It felt like a...
Synchronicity
It's Poetry Friday!Please join our friend Tabatha at The Opposite of Indifferencefor a peek into her BRAVE project. Here is my recommendation: READ IT! An elegy, a love story, a timely, fitting narrative of environmental heartbreak. It is mesmerizing. It is gorgeous....
About Patricia Franz
Published poet & kidlit writer
cultivating joy and inspiring
a long, loving look at the real.
Craft Work & Street Creds
Contests/Participant
PB Party 2023 Honorable Mention
National Poetry Month 2023, 2022
PoetryFriday! Click on the link for my poetry!
#50PreciousWords 2022, 2021 Honorable Mention
KidLit Vibes 2022 Honorable Mention
Education
M.A. Theology / Children’s Spiritual Development
Memberships
Member SCBWI-AZ since 2020
Member Inked Voices since 2021
12x12 Picture Book Challenge - since 2021
Courage to Create - The Writing Barn since 2022
Emeriti Trustee, The United States Association of the Catechesis of the Good Shepherd (CGSUSA)
Courses & Conferences
LYRICAL LANGUAGE LAB (Renee LaTulippe)
Andrea Brown Literary Agency (ABLA) Big Sur 2021
Writing Barn: Non-Fiction Beyond Fact Flinging (Heather L. Montgomery)
SCBWI & Smithsonian Institution Online Non-Fiction Workshop
Stanford Continuing Studies: Writing for the Youngest Audience: Little Children, Big Emotions (Lynn E. Hazen/Elissa Haden Guest)
Highlights Foundation: The Art of Giving & Receiving Critique (Erin Dionne)
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