The Oracle, drama pilot

• When a golden opportunity arises, founder Sam Altman makes the pivotal decision to transform his modest AI research lab into the era-defining powerhouse OpenAI.

Fairy Tale in Red, true crime pilot

• Two troubled teenagers run off into the New Jersey night, beginning an odyssey that gradually unravels their wayward fantasies—and the gruesome cause of their desperate flight. Inspired by true events in the author's hometown.

• Finalist, 2023 ScreenCraft Public Domain & True Stories

The Elegy of the Swan, drama feature

• After his estranged father's death, a young man embarks on a cross-country journey in his father's old car and attempts to connect to him through the words of his final novel, "The Elegy of the Swan."

The Complex, sci-fi drama pilot

• When aging actor Danny Baker threatens to leave The Complex, a futuristic mass entertainment company, he is forced to examine his illusions and delusions while uncovering a vast corporate conspiracy.

Flowers of Evil, historical civil war pilot

• In 1860s Boston, a bankrupt aristocrat attempts to gamble his way out of serious debts, while the heiress of a wealthy industrialist devises an escape from an arranged marriage. Their fates intertwine as the Civil War dawns over America.

The Heat, sci-fi climate change pilot

• In a climate change-destabilized near future, a young, idealistic climate refugee seeks purpose in the ranks of Aquarius, a violent eco-cult.

“Progress” - Sharkpack Poetry Review

“Evolution” - Sharkpack Poetry Review

Some Kind of Catalyst - Cusper

Just This - Hypocrite Reader

Murder Most Serene by Gabrielle Wittkop - Three Percent

Sentences and Rain by Elaine Equi - KGB Bar Lit

I Refuse by Per Petterson - KGB Bar Lit

Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo Johnson - KGB Bar Lit

Gojira, Godzilla, and Allegory

“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