Reverie: Patricia’s Blog
Lies we tell our children
It's Poetry Friday!Buffy Silvermanis celebrating her newest picture book, On a Flake-Flying Day: Watching Winter's Wonders and she's got the round up of poetry goodness! We lie to children all the time! Santa, The Tooth Fairy, The Easter Bunny. Did you hear these as a...
Renewal
I like to think that in God's infinite love, God knew we would need a way to make sense of pain and suffering. Maybe Ecclesiastes appeals to our human need to render meaning and to seek hope within the construct of past-present-future. Today, amidst the pain and...
Street poem
My spirit feels like a puddle of heartache this week. How much can a heart absorb – of atrocities, madness, dysfunction? And then, a spot of simple joy found its way to my inbox – to keep me believing the world is...
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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