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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.

Jane Austen’s Juvenilia Named Finalist at Atlanta Screenwriting Competition and Cinequest Film & Screenplay Festival

Before Elizabeth Bennet ever sparred with Darcy, there was a teenage Jane Austen filling notebooks with stories so anarchic, so wickedly funny, so shockingly modern that scholars would later compare them to Beckett and Pinter. Between the ages of eleven and seventeen she wrote twenty-nine works of savage wit and absurdist comedy — and they have never been captured on screen.

Until now.

My original pilot, Jane Austen’s Juvenilia, has been named a Finalist at both the Atlanta Screenwriting Competition and the prestigious Cinequest Film & Screenplay Festival. This is the Jane before the restraint. The comedian before the drawing room. The girl who has been waiting two hundred years for her close-up.

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