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{{Infobox person
| birth_date     = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1984|02|16}}
| birth_place    = [[Perth, Western Australia]]
| death_date     =
| death_place    =
| othername     = Alexander Bennett
| yearsactive   = 2004–current
| spouse        = Morgan Lee Moran
| website       = http://web.archive.org/web/20120106205941/http://screenwritingtips.blcklst.com:80/
| occupation    = Screenwriter, author
}}

'''Xander Bennett''' (born 16 February 1984)<ref name="AS1">[http://adelaidescreenwriter.blogspot.com/2012/01/interview-with-xander-bennett.html Interview - Adelaide Screenwriter] {{wayback|url=http://adelaidescreenwriter.blogspot.com/2012/01/interview-with-xander-bennett.html |date=20131021224228 |df=y }}</ref> is an [[Australia]]n [[screenwriter]] and [[author]]. He is a former [[Hollywood]] [[script reader]],<ref name="AS1" /> and a resident of [[Los Angeles]]. Bennett is best known for his laconic advice about the practice of screenwriting, shared daily in a blog called '''Screenwriting Tips... You Hack''',<ref name="blklst" /> and for a book of the same name.<ref name="book1">[http://www.focalpress.com/books/film_and_vid(contracted; show full)

He lived in [[Vancouver]] during 2008, where he did some freelance journalism and copywriting, and worked as a quality assurance tester for [[Electronic Arts]] Vancouver.<ref>[http://www.ea.com/ca Electronic Arts, Canada]</ref>

In 2009 he moved to [[Los Angeles]] for a year to attend the [[UCLA]] Professional Program in Producing. While there he worked as a reader for a minor production company.

Bennett administers an online script reading service, Hack Notes.<ref>[http://
web.archive.org/web/20120204123652/http://hacknotes.net:80/ Hack Notes] {{wayback|url=http://hacknotes.net/ |date=20120204123652 |df=y }}</ref>

He is managed by Madhouse Entertainment,<ref>[http://madhouseent.net/about.html Madhouse Entertainment] {{wayback|url=http://madhouseent.net/about.html |date=20111228130014 |df=y }}</ref> Los Angeles.

==Writing==

===Blogs===
Bennett first published a blog called ''Chained to the Keyboard'' while he was living in [[Queensland]], [[Australia]]. It ran from October 2005 to June 2006. That was followed by a blog called ''Childish Things'', which ran from 2007 to early 2009. Neither blog is now available online.

(contracted; show full)* Bennett, Xander. ''Screenwriting tips, you hack: 150 practical pointers for becoming a better screenwriter''. Oxford: Elsevier Inc, 2011. ISBN
978-0-240-81824-5

==Personal life==
Bennett is married to Megan Lee Moran (2014-).

==See also==
* Interview with Xander Bennett at [http://
web.archive.org/web/20131021224228/http://adelaidescreenwriter.blogspot.com/2012/01/interview-with-xander-bennett.html Adelaide Screenwriter], 15 January 2012
* Interview with Xander Bennett at [http://www.indiewire.com/article/meet_the_hack_behind_screenwriting_tips..._you_hack IndieWire], 24 October 2011.
* Interview with Xander Bennett at [http://web.archive.org/web/20120116061502/http://www.whatevercomics.com:80/#/xander-bennett/4528876465 Whatever Comics], undated.
* Interview with Xander Bennett at [http://web.archive.org/web/20111231012655/http://stealmyscript.com:80/interview-with-xander-bennet-author-of-screen Steal My Script], 13 October 2011.
* Xander Bennett at [http://masteringfilm.com/author/xander-bennett/Mastering Film.Com]{{dead link|date=July 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

==References==
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==External links==
* Xander Bennett on [http://web.archive.org/web/20120120162536/http://comicspace.com:80/members/xander ComicSpace]
* Xander Bennett on [https://plus.google.com/106687889061686780887/about Google +]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20120106205941/http://screenwritingtips.blcklst.com:80/ Screenwriting Tips... You Hack] The Blacklist
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20120204123652/http://hacknotes.net:80/ Hack Notes]

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[[Category:1984 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:UCLA Film School alumni]]
[[Category:Bond University alumni]]
[[Category:Writers from Perth, Western Australia]]
[[Category:Australian screenwriters]]
[[Category:21st-century Australian writers]]