Reverie: Patricia’s Blog
AFFIRMATION!
Gambel’s Quail earns Honorable Mention in Vivian Kirkfield’s #50PreciousWords International Writing Contest
How to Build a Reader
The checkerboard Zoom screen is not how most of us imagine a child’s first weeks of school. But due to shelter-in-place restrictions last fall, instead of gathering 26 squirming bodies to the rug of her brightly decorated classroom, Teresa Sorensen, in her 34th year...
Writing Contest!
BI’ll be brave. I’ll wait all night
Outside your door, till morning light.
I’ll guard your room so you can dream
Of hearts and parks and pink ice cream.
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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