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Spiritual Journey 2024
The Power of ANDOLWIt was only last year, having fallen in love with both the Poetry Friday and the Spiritual Journey communities, that I waded into the pond of One Little Word.Trepidation... Dread... Could I really commit to –let alone choose – ONE word to guide my...
2024 One Little Word
HAPPY NEW YEAR!It's Poetry Friday!Our first Poetry Friday round up of 2024 is hosted by my Nevermores poetry partner - and librarian extraordinaire Marcie Flinchum Atkins! Carve out time to enjoy her incredible macro-photography haikus and marvel over the incredible...
A new year’s horizon
A bare dining room table beckoned to be cloaked. I set the ribboned packages discreetly beneath our skinny Christmas tree. I left behind the toddler clamor. I gathered the tablecloth and I ironed. It felt good to set aside the blur of my holiday weeks to prepare our...
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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