Reverie: Patricia’s Blog
Finding Our Way
It's Poetry Friday!Nevermores poetry partner and author-librarian extraordinairre has the Roundup this week! Join Marcie Flinchum Atkins here . She's prepping for the Sealey Challenge and you can get a peek at a couple of photos from our glorious handful of days...
The Poetry of Friendship
It's PoetryFriday! Want to know more? Click here. This week's round up is hosted by Jan at Bookseedstudio. Join us! Poetry Friday peeps know: This space is GIFT. I am also a part of the Nevermores – a small group of five poet-writers who found one another via the...
Here’s Your Sign
It's Poetry Friday!And we are hosted this weekend by Tabatha at The Opposite of Indifference–defender of all things BRAVE! Join us for some poetry refreshment!I love the surprise of a funny sign. They are perfect non-sequiturs for my vacations. My husband and I spent...
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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