Influx Press is an independent British publishing company, based in north London, founded in 2012 by Gary Budden and Kit Caless. They are known for publishing "innovative and challenging fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction from across the UK and beyond".
Background
Influx Press was founded by Gary Budden and Kit Caless as an independent publishing company based in North London. The first title to be published, in 2012, was ''Acquired For Development By…'', edited by Budden and Caless, an anthology of commissioned short stories and poetry inspired by the
London Borough of Hackney. Budden has said that he had not originally intended to set up a publishing company, "but after an internship at Richmond Literary Festival working with people like
David Starkey
David Robert Starkey (born 3 January 1945) is an English historian and radio and television presenter, with views that he describes as conservative. The only child of Quaker parents, he attended Kendal Grammar School before studying at Cambri ...
and
Quentin Letts, I realised I wanted to do something different to the mainstream", so with local donations and advice from other small publishers such as Penned in the Margins and Five Leaves, Influx Press was started.
Authors since published by Influx Press include
Eley Williams
Eley Williams is a British writer. Her debut collection of prose, ''Attrib. and Other Stories'' (Influx Press, 2017), was awarded the Republic of Consciousness Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2018. With writing anthologised in ''The ...
, Shiromi Pinto, Adam Scovell, Annabel Banks, Gareth E. Rees, Fernando Sdrigotti, Jeffrey Boakye,
Joel Lane,
Juliet Jacques,
Marie Ndiaye,
Chimène Suleyman, and
Percival Everett
Percival Everett (born December 22, 1956) is an American writer and Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California.
Life
Everett lives in Los Angeles, California.
Literary career
While completing his AM degree at ...
.
In 2018, Influx Press won the
Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses, sharing the award with author Eley Williams, whose debut collection ''Attrib. and other stories'' the company published to acclaim in 2017.
In 2022, the imprint received its first
Booker Prize
The Booker Prize, formerly known as the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a literary prize awarded each year for the best novel written in English and published in the United Kingdom or Ireland. ...
nomination for Percival Everett's novel ''
The Trees'', which was subsequently announced on the shortlist.
References
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External links
Official website
Book publishing companies based in London
Publishing companies established in 2012
Small press publishing companies
2012 establishments in the United Kingdom