Event: First Friday
First Friday with Benjamin Stevenson
7 July 2023, 12:30-1:30pm
Online via Zoom
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 invite you to our online event with Benjamin Stevenson, literary agent with Curtis Brown and award-winning stand-up comedian and author.
Join this online discussion as Benjamin shares his experiences as a literary agent 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.
This event starts online at 12:30pm, via Zoom, and will run for 60 minutes. If there is time, we will take audience questions at the end. Free and open to members and non-members, but RSVPs are essential.
Registered attendees will receive a link to access this event online immediately prior to the event start time on Friday 7 July.
BENJAMIN STEVENSON, LITERARY AGENT WITH CURTIS BROWN AND AWARD-WINNING STAND-UP COMEDIAN AND AUTHOR
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.
