Reverie: Patricia’s Blog
Spiritual Journey: Still Waters
still waters every good shepherd knows lambs sip only from still waters– unequipped to navigate turbulence, survival instinct kicks in – they need to feel safe somehow, sheep figured out to fear running water – if thrown into a moving river sheep can...
Beyond Green: A Clunker Exchange
It's PoetryFriday! Welcome! Want to know more? Click here. This week's round up is hosted by Tanita Davis at {fiction, instead of lies} Join the poetry conversation! Thank you, Linda Mitchell, for your annual clunker exchange. I was happy to play with the line: I...
Keeping the Faith
It's Poetry Friday!Join us this weekend. Carol Labuzzetta at The Apples in My Orchard plays host to our roundup of poetry goodness.keeping the faith you cathedral the forest, upright roots creaturing any within reach of your canopy – beetle and grub who feed on your...
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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