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Holiday Swap Acrostic
It's PoetryFriday! Want to know more? Click here. This week's round up is hosted all the way from Queensland, Australia, by children's author and poet Kathryn Apel. Join us at Kats Whiskers! What a joy to share friendships across pens (and pencils and laptops and...
The Unfolding
Happy New Year! I'm grateful to journey in spirit with a wonderful cohort of wonderers and believers. This is the space where we share reflections each month. Our host for January is Margaret Simon. She shares her OLW still here. Join us!I want to try origami. I want...
OLW: unfold
It's a new year of Poetry Friday!Mary Lee Hahn hosts this week's links, along with poetry WISDOM, at A(nother) Year of Reading. Join us! I’m not terribly superstitious. And I don’t consider myself a birder. But according to birding lore, the first bird you see on New...
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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