Reverie: Patricia’s Blog
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It's Poetry Friday! Tracey at Tangles and Tails hosts us this weekend. Tracey and I met at last year's Highlights retreat with Irene Latham and Charles Waters. We are so lucky that she has joined the Poetry Friday community!I am heartsick. Yesterday, the tree guys...
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...
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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