Reverie: Patricia’s Blog
Spiritual Journey: Wholehearted
Ruth Ayers is hosting our September Spirituall Journey. You can find links to her post and others here. Ruth asked us to reflect with her on her 2024 OLW, wholehearted. What does it mean to live wholeheartedly?I scribbled a lot of words: a full YES, approval; see the...
Begin Our Adieus
It's Poetry Friday!and Buffy at Buffy Silverman hosts our roundup this week! Join us!I sat yesterday morning, sipping coffee, staying warm beneath a quilt and the heat from our firepit. I was thinking about goodbyes. Goodbye to summer. To my time in the mountains...
Line Breaks
It's PoetryFriday! Want to know more? Click here. Susan at Chicken Spaghetti is hosting the round up. Click on over and join us! "Now the rain makes way for the undulating call of cicadas at sunset, its rising and falling, the pulse of the world. The cicadas’ song...
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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