Reverie: Patricia’s Blog
Kidlit Progressive Poem 2025
LOOKING FOR THE KIDLIT PROGRESSIVE POEM for 4/22? Please click here. You will be taken to Rose Cappelli's Imagine The Possibilities blog.Yes, Rose offered a line earlier this month. Due to a family emergeny, I am unable to participate.Thank you for your understanding!
More Playing With Paper
I’m folding and unfolding my way through 2025 - and celebrating National Poetry Month with ORIGAMI poetry! Why spend time playing with paper? I love a challenge to find what is hidden, to make something three-dimensional out of something two-dimensional. Most...
More Origami
Isn't this a great image? It's the official 2025 poster for National Poetry Month. My NPM project continues this week with more... ORIGAMI!sunfish gift-wrapped in golden scalesmy story unfoldsa trail of bubblesa tale of wide-eyedwanderings ©2025 PJFNo Words...
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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