For the twentieth episode of The Quarantine Hotline Fernando Sdrigotti talks to Gary Budden, author, and co-editor of Influx Press. Tune in for a chat about London fiction, weird fiction, psychogeography, landscape punk, queen rats, the judderman, and more.

In conversation with Fernando Sdrigotti on the Minor Literature(s) Quarantine Hotline.


Please join us for an event with writers Gary Budden and Nicholas Royle, in celebration of the release of their new books LONDON INCOGNITA and LONDON GOTHIC....

In conversation with Nicholas Royle, author of London Gothic (Confingo, 2020), hosted by Burley Fisher Books.

Housmans is pleased to welcome sci-fi supremo M. John Harrison to our first digital event in collaboration with indie publishers Comma Press and Influx Press...

In conversation with M. John Harrison, launching his collection Settling the World (Comma Press, 2020)

Why does literary fiction thrive in a world where nobody reads?Join us on Wednesday, June 3rd at 12pm PT/SLT with authors Annabel Banks, Gary Budden, Kit Cal...

"I wanted landscape punk, not nature writing"Gary Budden met Daniel in a pub near Old Street for Episode 7. He's the co-director of Influx Press, and an edit...


Listen to my interview with Inés G. Labarta for The Wandering Bard, about landscape punk, Hollow Shores and more.

Where, and how, does nature writing intersect with architectural criticism? Urban exploration? Hauntology? Nationalism and fascism? This week, Tom Overton talks to writer and Influx Press co-founder Gary Budden about how his collection 'Hollow Shores' blends nature writing and weird fiction, his collaborations with filmmaker and fellow Influx author Adam Scovell and illustrator Maxim Peter Griffin, how writers as aesthetically and politically diverse as Derek Jarman and Henry Williamson have represented the English landscape, and more.

Gary Budden chats his new book Hollow Shores (Dead Ink Books) and his own role at Influx Press!

'Greenteeth' is short wyrd fiction super-8 film based on my story of the same name. It follows the gradual disintegration of a girl living on a canal boat in Kensal Green as the folklore of Jenny Greenteeth begins to manifest through her social problems.


LONDON: Fernando Sdrigotti, Harry Gallon, Honor Gavin, and myself discuss the relationship between London and literature. William Wyld reads a London-set poem.

Launching a new series of episodes about place, Scott Manley Hadley chats to Winnie M Li, Andrej Nikolaidis and Aleksandar Prokopiev and myself about travel and tourism.


Trailer for Adam Scovell's super-8 adaptation of my short wyrd fiction, 'Greenteeth' (nominated for a British Fantasy Award 2017 for best short story). The film follows the strange thoughts of a young woman who now lives a tense, stressful life on a barge moored on Kensal Green canal, haunted by the presence of something unnerving whose spirit lives in the water.

A trip out to the far east of Barking and Beckton with @DeadGull. Music is here https://soundcloud.com/lea-mouth-277/this-far-east if you want. Video by Martin Fuller.


From punk landscapes to fictional counties and supermarket car parks... a recording of Unofficial Britain's show for Influx Press Day at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival, 6th June 2015, featuring Gareth E. Rees, Tina Richardson, David Southwell and Gary Budden. Recorded by Find out more on http://www.unofficialbritain.com/

The audio of the Unofficial Britain talk at Stoke Newington Literary Festival, 2015. I was speaking alongside Tina Richardson, Gareth E. Rees and David Southwell.

Gareth E. Rees and I recount our fateful trip to the Rye Harbour reserve at Camaradefest, Bethnal Green, London


Kit Caless and myself reading Kent tales from Connecting Nothing with Something, November 22nd, 2014 at the Betsey Trotwood in Farringdon, London.

Me reading 'Platforms' as part of the Mahu series. Mahu was an exhibition by SJ Fowler at the Hardy Tree Gallery, in Kings Cross, London running from June 6th to 27th 2015.