Reverie: Patricia’s Blog
National Poetry Month – Week 2
I finished SOIL last week but Dungy's poems are fertile prompt material! Here are some more of my daily musings. Find April 3 through April 7 here.Find April 1 and 2 here.April 11, 2024 Who is my neighbor? woven into my window screen, a dusty cobweb waits for...
2024 Progressive Poem Update
2024 Progressive Poem cradled in stars, our planet sleeps,clinging to tender dreams of peacesister moon watches from afar,singing lunar lullabies of hope. almost dawn. I walk with others,keeping close, my little brother.hand in hand, we carry courageescaping closer...
Eclipse Poetry
It's #PoetryFriday! Want to know more? Click here. This week's round up is hosted Jone at Jone Rush MacCulloch. Jone is in full-celebration mode for National Poetry Month with author interviews and poetry set to video by her students. Join us this weekend! TOTAL...
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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