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EARTH DAY 2024
It's Poetry Friday! Join us this weekend by perusing the links via our host, Heidi Mordhorst's blog: my juicy little universe.Earth Day 2024 approaches. I seek hope in words and images. The fragility of our future and all that we are losing – species,...
National Poetry Month – Final SOIL Prompts
SOIL got me through half of April - daily poems written to excerpts from Camille T. Dungy's wonderful work. Look for poetry inspired by snippets from her volume TROPHIC CASCADE next week. Find April 8 through April 11 here.Find April 3 through April 7 here.Find April...
National Poetry Month – Week 2
I finished SOIL last week but Dungy's poems are fertile prompt material! Here are some more of my daily musings. Find April 3 through April 7 here.Find April 1 and 2 here.April 11, 2024 Who is my neighbor? woven into my window screen, a dusty cobweb waits for...
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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