Influx Press

Influx Press is an independent publisher based in North London, founded by Gary Budden and Kit Caless. We are committed to publishing innovative and challenging fiction and creative non-fiction from across the UK and beyond.

Founded in 2012, we have published award-winning fiction collections, boundary-pushing debut novels, site-specific anthologies, creative non-fiction and more, launching the careers of writers including Darran Anderson, Jeffrey Boakye, Eliza Clark, Gareth E Rees, Eley Williams and many more.

In 2018, Influx won the Republic of Consciousness Prize for Small Presses.

Attrib. and Other Stories by Eley Williams won the prestigious James Tait Black Award in 2018, and our titles have been shortlisted and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Edge Hill Prize, the Jhalak Prize and the Gordon Burn Prize.

In 2022 we published The Trees by Percival Everett, which was shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize and won the Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman Prize.

After a hiatus, Influx resumed publishing in 2024 and became fully operational in 2025, when Caless left to pursue his academic interests.

Budden is now director of Influx Press, spearheading a new list and a new direction for the press.
years of life: 2012 present

Quotes

Victoria Sonnenberghas quoted2 years ago
When we meet love that sees us as what we are, we blossom. And that little flower, a blazon; some heat from a heart we thought we thought desiccant, and a loin we knew to be silent.
Victoria Sonnenberghas quoted2 years ago
There’s a lot of cruelty in our world, isn’t there? Where goggle-eyed dictators and influentials rule what is said. Where men are led by appetites of the wrong kind and lay their table not with bread and herbs but with lust and coldness. It’s like a chess game of moving pieces to gain advantage, and what way is that to live? And you see, if you look closely, and if you get down there and smell the mud, titillate the sand on your tongue and suck at a blade of grass, well now you will taste the acidity that is born of cruelty.
Victoria Sonnenberghas quoted2 years ago
This could be done in a dark kitchen. I like to do it in a dark kitchen because, when I started growing ideas – which he, ironically, helped me seed, plant and nourish – I started to realise that shame can be delicious.
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