Congratulations to JonArno Lawson!

JonArno Lawson’s children’s book A Voweller’s Bestiary has just won the 2009 Lion and Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry.

This is the second time JonArno has won the award. In 2007 Black Stars in a White Night Sky won and, in 2005, The Man in the Moon-Fixer’s Mask was named the Honour book for the award.

Another of his works, Inside Out, has also just been shortlisted for the upcoming Centre for Literacy in Primary Education Poetry Award in the UK!

You should remember JonArno from 2008 when he dazzled audiences on the infamous Poetry Bash Mainstage and at the Afternoon Book Chat at the Polo Park McNally Robinson Bookstore.

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