Reverie: Patricia’s Blog
All Souls’ Day
POETRY FRIDAY IS HERE!Welcome! If you are visiting and want to learn more click here --> Poetry Friday,If you would like to share your poetry, scroll down and add your blog link. All Souls' Day On November 2nd, many in the Christian tradition will celebrate...
Year of the Weddings
It's PoetryFriday! Want to know more? Click here. Our host this week is our friend Carol at Beyond LiteracyLink. Give yourself the gift of perusing poetry this weekend! Join us! a year of weddings a year of weddings come and gone what remains is joy dresses, parties,...
NWP: Poetry For the Planet
It's Poetry Friday!Matt at Radio, Rhythm & Rhymeis celebrating several new books and poetry anthologies! Join us! Is there anything more gorgeous than a vineyard in fall? Well – perhaps if its rows hold a sweet, curious 2-year-old in an...
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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