Reverie: Patricia’s Blog
Everything Will Be Okay
It's PoetryFriday! Want to know more? Click here. We are hosted this week by Janice at Salt City Verse. Please join us by clicking through and enjoying a peek at the world through poetry. Everything will be okay I have watched the news over the past ten years. Heard...
Spiritual Journey: Pause
It's been a wedding week (and the-some) of joy! As I reluctantly come up for air, I'm offering this week's post as both a Spiritual Journey reflection on the theme of "Pause" --offered and hosted by Carol Varsalona AND for Poetry Friday, hosted this week by Molly...
A wedding
It's Poetry Friday! Laura at Poems for Teachers has the round up of poetry goodness this week!Technically, I’m not a teacher. But I am a poet and I love children. So last week, I wrote poems with the Ethical ELA community for five days. During that time, I was helping...
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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