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Poetry Friday: Remember This
Digital betwixting sprinkled further fairy dust upon me...It's been a Margaret Wise Brown-kinda week. No, I have not been re-reading GOODNIGHT, MOON. I kept bumping into her digital footprint. If you follow Maria Popova's weekly philosophical musings (The...
CK Malone: On writing & #ownvoices
It's not everyday that I get to boost a fellow #kidlit writer who also happens to be my friend and CP! Happy Book Birthday!! A COSTUME FOR CHARLYby CK MaloneFRIDAY MINDS - That's our critique group. We are CK, Maria Claudia, Nat, Randi, Rathi, and me. We meet...
Poetry Friday: Dayenu
Dayenu "It would have been enough..." Dayenu is a prayer, traditionally sung during the Jewish holiday of Passover. Its approximate translation from the Hebrew: It would have been enough. I’m not Jewish, but even those who do not profess a belief can hear in...
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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