Jonathan LaPoma

Author / Screenwriter / Songwriter

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DEVELOPING MINDS Wins Bronze In FAPA President’s Awards

Jonathan LaPoma’s best-selling novel, DEVELOPING MINDS: AN AMERICAN GHOST STORY, won the bronze medal in the 2016 Florida Authors and Publishers Association President’s Awards.

DEVELOPING MINDS follows a group of recent college graduates who struggle with alienation and their addictions as they try to survive a year of teaching in dysfunctional Miami public schools. The novel is a #1 Amazon Best Seller in the “Satire” and “Urban Life” Kindle categories, and it also won the 2015 Stargazer Literary Prizes (Visionary and Metaphysical Fiction category).

LaPoma’s literary works and screenplays have won over 90 awards/honors in international writing competitions since 2013.

Jon LaPoma Places Two Scripts in Evolution Mallorca Film Fest

The Evolution Mallorca Film Festival has chosen Jonathan LaPoma’s feature-length screenplays A NOBLE TRUTH and LA TIERRA QUE YO AMO (co-written by Natalia Porras Sivolobova) as official selections to their 2015 festival.

In the past week, LaPoma has had 6 of his scripts place in screenwriting competitions, including making the top 12 in the Oaxaca Film Festival. Also, his coming-of-age novel DEVELOPING MINDS: AN AMERICAN GHOST STORY won 1st place in the 2015 Stargazer Literary Prizes on October 7th.

DEVELOPING MINDS Wins 1st in Stargazer Literary Prizes

The Stargazer Literary Prizes has awarded Jonathan LaPoma’s coming-of-age novel DEVELOPING MINDS: AN AMERICAN GHOST STORY as the winner of their 2015 competition (Visionary and Metaphysical Fiction category).

DEVELOPING MINDS, Finalist in STARGAZER LITERARY PRIZES

Jonathan LaPoma’s novel DEVELOPING MINDS: AN AMERICAN GHOST STORY is a finalist in the 2015 Stargazer Literary Prizes. DEVELOPING MINDS follows a group of recent college graduates who struggle through a year of teaching in two dysfunctional Miami public schools. The novel will be published by Laughing Fire Press on September 14, 2015.

“DEVELOPING MINDS is a raunchy, yet captivating story of two best friends, one gay, one not, who decide to spend a year teaching in the dysfunctional Miami school district… Jonathan LaPoma is an extraordinary writer.”

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