Reverie: Patricia’s Blog
Waiting on potatoes
It's PoetryFriday! Want to know more? Click here. Our friend Linda at TeacherDance is hosting the roundup of poetry this weekend. Join us!My three years of attempting to grow vegetables in the high Sierras have made me think more about: → overnight temperatures and...
Cultivate
It's PoetryFriday! She created a poetic form. She founded a poetry zine for students. She’s a tireless advocate for the planet. She’s an author, a poet, a wife, a mom. And she’s hosting us for our Poetry Friday weekend roundup! Please join us via Heidi Mordhorst’s...
Spiritual Journey: Wholehearted
Ruth Ayers is hosting our September Spirituall Journey. You can find links to her post and others here. Ruth asked us to reflect with her on her 2024 OLW, wholehearted. What does it mean to live wholeheartedly?I scribbled a lot of words: a full YES, approval; see the...
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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