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#PoetryFriday: THISTLE
Blessed milk thistle/sharp, jagged bracts, invasive…
#PoetryFriday: Six Degrees of Separation
I received a delightful Christmas gift from my daughter-in-law this year: Paint Chip Poetry. Essentially, it is a box full of word and phrase prompts. The added "layer" is that each word or phrase is found on a colored paint chip, similar to what you would find at a...
#PoetryFriday: Perch
It's February! No better time to jump in and begin participating in #PoetryFriday (as opposed to simply stalking)! My poetry friends, "The Nevermores," are writing from the word prompt: perch. PERCH birds perch predators lurch we kneel in church in search of...
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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