Reverie: Patricia’s Blog
Re-Visioning?
I've been thinking about trade-offs. In a perfect world, you don't have to choose. In a perfect world, you always make the right choice -- or do you even have to make choices? 2025 gifted us with three new babies in my extended family. These new parents! So many...
Wood Duck Wonder
Wood Duck Diary is Margaret Simon’s love letter to her home on the Bayou Teche in New Iberia, Louisiana. In this small volume of twenty haibun (prose + tanka) poems there is: History – 22 years of passion for the flora and fauna of her home. Community –...
Darkness and Light
Thank you to Jone MacCulloch for leading us in this month's Spiritual Journey reflection on darkness, light, Advent, and finding periods of silence. The people who walk in darkness have seen a great light. Isaiah 9:2For most of my life, December has meant...
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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