ben marshall
writer
Ben Marshall is professional scriptwriter, and emerging novelist.
He fell into a writing career when, while working as a Remote Area Nurse, a medical drama needed a consultant with broad experience on their storylining team. His writing CV now includes credits for Shortland Street, Neighbours, various childrens’ series, and awards, here and in the US, for a short film True Love, by Ignition Films.
Ben’s writing is inspired and informed by his eclectic life. He’s been a science journalist, farm worker, factory hand, deckhand, nurse and midwife. He’s worked in critical care and in remote communities, and travelled, lived, worked and mountaineered in many countries.
His manuscripts are as diverse as the situations he’s found himself in, and the characters he’s met. (See Current Projects) He’s now working on a YA Trilogy set around the Pacific during the Second World War, the first of which was shortlisted in the Emerging Writer category of the Queensland Literary Awards 2017.
His character-driven plots use multiple points of view to investigate the historical past, the speculative future, and the human condition. Each manuscript is an opportunity to research the complex issues unique to our species, and take readers on a journey they haven’t taken before.
He lives in a remote mountain valley in Tasmania with his wife, two rescue dogs and a very large number of marsupials, some of which are carnivorous.
His agent is Danielle Binks, at Jacinta di Mase.
He fell into a writing career when, while working as a Remote Area Nurse, a medical drama needed a consultant with broad experience on their storylining team. His writing CV now includes credits for Shortland Street, Neighbours, various childrens’ series, and awards, here and in the US, for a short film True Love, by Ignition Films.
Ben’s writing is inspired and informed by his eclectic life. He’s been a science journalist, farm worker, factory hand, deckhand, nurse and midwife. He’s worked in critical care and in remote communities, and travelled, lived, worked and mountaineered in many countries.
His manuscripts are as diverse as the situations he’s found himself in, and the characters he’s met. (See Current Projects) He’s now working on a YA Trilogy set around the Pacific during the Second World War, the first of which was shortlisted in the Emerging Writer category of the Queensland Literary Awards 2017.
His character-driven plots use multiple points of view to investigate the historical past, the speculative future, and the human condition. Each manuscript is an opportunity to research the complex issues unique to our species, and take readers on a journey they haven’t taken before.
He lives in a remote mountain valley in Tasmania with his wife, two rescue dogs and a very large number of marsupials, some of which are carnivorous.
His agent is Danielle Binks, at Jacinta di Mase.
