Reverie: Patricia’s Blog
More Playing With Paper
I’m folding and unfolding my way through 2025 - and celebrating National Poetry Month with ORIGAMI poetry! Why spend time playing with paper? I love a challenge to find what is hidden, to make something three-dimensional out of something two-dimensional. Most...
More Origami
Isn't this a great image? It's the official 2025 poster for National Poetry Month. My NPM project continues this week with more... ORIGAMI!sunfish gift-wrapped in golden scalesmy story unfoldsa trail of bubblesa tale of wide-eyedwanderings ©2025 PJFNo Words...
Origami Poetry
In Celebration of National Poetry Month... (If you're reading this in your email and you don't see any images, click here to go to my blog. Otherwise, the poems and text won't make much sense!)Call it a convergence... synchronicity... I chose unfold as my One Little...
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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