About
Ben Carter Olcott is currently the Creative Associate to Robin Veith (Mad Men, The Act) and was writers’ assistant on the true crime series Candy (starring Jessica Biel and Melanie Lynskey).
Ben’s true crime pilot Fairy Tale in Red was a finalist in ScreenCraft’s Public Domain and True Stories Contest. Additionally, he has been a finalist in Southern California and Geneva International Science in Screenwriting contests and has placed in numerous others.
His fiction was recently a TulipTree Stories That Need to Be Told Contest Finalist and a Launch Pad Prose Competition Development Selection. His work has been been a finalist in Glimmer Train short story contests, awarded Sharkpack Poetry Review's Prospero Prize, nominated for Pushchart and Best of the Net Prizes.
His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Pangyrus, Marrow, TulipTree, Cusper, Showcase, Hypocrite Reader, Sharkpack Poetry Review, KGB Bar Literary Magazine, Enclave, and Three Percent.
Ben was formerly the moderator of the Coyotes Literary Fiction book club at Skylight Books in Los Angeles and the Managing Editor of KGB Bar Literary Magazine. He is based in Los Angeles
Writing.
“Ben Carter Olcott is a New Jersey-born writer whose interest in storytelling brought him from the New York City publishing world to TV writing. He is not a stranger to disruption - as a millennial who grew up in post-9/11 America, he’s always been aware of the tremors that have marked the 21st century. An interest in intimate epics and character-driven stories about American history led to his position as a Writer’s and Showrunner’s Assistant on HULU’s upcoming series CANDY, and in his own writing, he seamlessly infuses experiences of trauma under the duress of extraordinary global circumstances."
Namrata, Coverfly Writer Development Team
“Ben Carter Olcott probes what it means to be at once steadfast and illusory, in small ways channeling Borges, ruminating on the individual and the city. Clean, succinct prose delivers his message … [his] pieces are thinking pieces as well as feeling pieces. They work in different ways, with different subject matter to yet pry into the who and why of us, people, in the now, certainly, but across time as well.”
Showcase Editorial Staff, “The Chessman”
“Olcott’s poems have a whiff of Kafka, a bemused cerebralism, and refuse to barter language’s diamond hardness for legibility.”
Joseph Spece, Editor-in-Chief of Sharkpack Annual, Propsero Prize Announcement
