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…

Big Apple Film Festival and Screenwriting Competition – Finalist – The Van Cleef Chronicles https://www.bigapplefilmfestival.com/fall-2025-finalists Global Film Festival Awards – Best Screenplay Winner – The Erasure https://www.gffawards.com/jul2025 Santa Barbara Int’l Screenplay Awards – TV Pilot – Semi-Finalist – Jane Austen’s Juvenilia https://portal.wherehollywoodhides.com/contests/santa-barbara-international-screenplay-awards-summer-2025 Cannes World Film Festival – Finalist – Three Ice Cubes https://www.world-film-festival.com/en/finalists-june-2025-world-film-festival-in-cannes/ Filmmatic Short…

http://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/?p=55742&preview=1&_ppp=7a97f88458 Strange Horizons kicked off June with an issue including Dana Wall’s “Customer Service Repre­sentative’s Notes on Soul Processing”, a poem that explores an afterlife in which people are judged not by a divinity exactly, but by an algorithm – a computer program that can review a person’s life and give them a score and options for…

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I’m deeply honored to share that my work, The Space Between, has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, recognizing the best writing published by small presses. My sincerest thanks to Intrepidus Ink and Rhonda for believing in this piece and for the care, collaboration, and vision that went into its publication. I loved crafting this…

HONORABLE MENTIONS (FEATURES) The honorable mentions for this round feel like a guided tour through horror’s many mirrors—each reflecting a different anxiety, a different obsession, a different thing we’d rather not admit we fear. Dana Wall’s The Hollow Beneath the Pines digs into the hunger of every artist who ever wanted to leave a mark, turning that…

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