"Crafting worlds where the extraordinary feels inevitable"
Dana Wall is a fiction writer and screenwriter based in Manhattan Beach, California.
Her literary work appears in Brevity, Tupelo Quarterly, River Teeth: Beautiful Things, Hunger Mountain, Columbia Journal (contest winner), Strange Horizons, The Maine Review, Necessary Fiction, and SWWIM, among others. She has received two 2025 Pushcart Prize nominations and a Best of the Net nomination.
Her screenplay The Erasure won at the Global Film Festival Awards, and The Van Cleef Chronicles was a finalist at the Big Apple Film Festival and selected for the Alpine International Film Festival. Additional screenwriting honors include finalist recognition at Cannes World Film Festival for Three Ice Cubes and semi-finalist placements at Santa Barbara International Screenplay Awards and Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival.
Dana holds an MFA from Goddard College, a Psychology degree, MBA, and CPA credentials. She spent fifteen years managing financial operations in Hollywood before transitioning to full-time creative writing in 2022. She co-authors children’s books with her daughter Amber and specializes in high-concept literary adaptations, psychological thrillers, and character-driven drama that explores memory, transformation, and the spaces between realism and the uncanny.
The Red Migration (Story Unlikely), Tangent Online Reading list logo compliments of Story Unlikely Editor, Danny Hanker
Three Ice Cubes – Semifinalist Short Screenplay – BlueCat Screenplay Competition – 40 of 1091 shorts
The Six Loops of Scott & Capital Crimes – Semifinalist Screenplay – Pitch Now Screenplay Competition
The Six Loops of Scott & Juvenilia – Selected Screenplay and Teleplay – Los Angeles Int’l Screenplay Competition
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