Dan Wakefield
is interviewed by host Kathleen Adams
on the Journaling for a Better Life show
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Dan Wakefield is a novelist, journalist, screenwriter, teacher, speaker, and workshop leader. Two of his novels, "Starting Over" and "Going All The Way" have been produced as feature films. Dan wrote the script based on his novel of "Going All The Way," which premiered at The Sundance Film Festival, and created the NBC prime-time television series "James at 15." Read more.
His memoir "New York in the Fifties" was basis of a documentary film of the same name. Other memoirs include "Returning: A Spiritual Journey," and "How Do We Know When It's God?" He is the author of "Expect A Miracle," "The Story of Your Life: Writing a Spiritual Autobiography," and "Releasing The Creative Spirit."
Wakefield has given his workshops on "Spiritual Autobiography" and "Releasing the Creative Spirit" at churches, synagogues, monasteries, retreat centers, universities, health spas, adult education centers throughout the U.S. and Northern Ireland, and at Sing Sing Prison. Other workshop venues have included: King's Chapel in Boston, All Souls Unitarian Church in New York, The Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago, The Esalen Institute, The Omega Institute, Pendle Hill Quaker Retreat Center, The Society of St. John the Evangalist in Cambridge, Mass., Princeton University, and Rancho La Puerta, the health spa in Tecate, Mexico.
Dan has also been a staff writer for The Nation Magazine, a Contributing Editor of The Atlantic Monthly, a columnist for the website Beliefnet.com, and on the advisory board of Image: A Journal of The Arts and Religion. He has been awarded the Bernard DeVoto Fellowship at The Bread Loaf Writers Conference; and a writing grant from The Rockefeller Foundation; has served as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Loyola University of New Orleans.
He is Writer in Residence at Florida International University, where has been awarded The Faculty Award For Mentorship, and is on the staff of The Converse College MFA in Creative Writing Program in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
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