First Friday, our monthly conversation with an industry professional, is a chance for our community to learn more about the writing and publishing industry. This July, we invited you to our online event with Benjamin Stevenson, literary agent with Curtis Brown and award-winning stand-up comedian and author.
Watch the Zoom recording here.
Catch up on our First Friday Zoom recording as Writing NSW CEO Jane McCredie chats with Benjamin about his experiences as a literary agent and writer working across a broad range of genres and mediums. Find out about the books he wished he’d worked on, as well as his upcoming novel releasing in October.
Explore the rest of our conversations with other First Friday guests on our YouTube channel.
Benjamin Stevenson is a literary agent with Curtis Brown and award-winning stand-up comedian and author. After leaving behind an engineering career to tour arts festivals worldwide, working as a performer, producer and festival director, Benjamin squeezed in a Masters of Publishing at the University of Sydney and joined Curtis Brown in 2015.
Benjamin relishes in bringing creator’s stories to life through different mediums – audio, film and theatrical adaptations – as well as building his own list of clients. He has a taste for innovative crime fiction, thrillers with strong hooks and unpredictable twists, strongly drawn character dramas, and millennial literary fiction with a sharp tongue. He is not afraid of subversive or daring works, and loves a bit of black humour. He bugs everyone else in the office by trying to guess endings.
Benjamin’s first novel, Greenlight, was shortlisted for the Ned Kelly Award for Best Debut Crime Fiction, and his second novel, Either Side of Midnight, was shortlisted for the International Thriller Writers Award for Best Original Paperback. Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone, his third novel, was a huge bestseller and has so far been sold in twenty-six territories around the world. It will soon be adapted into a major HBO TV series. His new novel, Everyone On This Train Is A Suspect, will be released in October.
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