Fernando Sdrigotti in conversation with Thom Cuell, Tamim Sadikali, Naomi Frisby and James Miller, about their experiences writing about trauma.

The essays in this collection — edited by Sam Mills and Thom Cuell, published by Dodo Ink — range from the personal to the political, from the raw to the reflective, exploring topics such as grief, insomnia, anxiety, schizophrenia, meditation, abusive relationships, work, and the relationship between madness and creativity. 

Other contributors include: Neil Griffiths, Kirsty Logan, Tomoe Hill, Sophie Mackintosh, Rhiannon L. Cosslett, Monique Roffey, Alex Pheby, Marina Benjamin, Juliet Jacques, and the film-maker David Lynch, among others. 

Inspired by the works of Léon Spilliaert, Novella feeds on the Belgian symbolist’s atmospheric evocations of bleak and brooding horizons, shadowy buildings and solitary figures. A story of dislocation, doubling and disappearance, it is available now at: https://tobiasryan.substack.com/

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Originally from Wrexham, Tobias Ryan has been living in Paris, for the last eight years where he works as an English teacher and translator. He’s had stories published online by Open Pen and STORGY.

Twitter: @TobiasvRyan

Joseph Delgado’s poetry offers writing that doesn’t attempt to tame or domesticate the wildness of the human heart. His land is vast and populated with junkies, prostitutes, and dear old aunts who can teach you to skin a rabbit or kill a man. The smell of oil, grease, tobacco, and sex are not just piped in for the tourists.

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Joseph Delgado was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His work has appeared in The Santa Fe Literary Review and Trajectory as well as in the anthology Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion & Spirituality published by Sibling Rivalry Press. San Francisco-based independent queer Chicanx Kórima Press published his first collection Ditch Water: Poems in 2013. Broken Mesas, also by Kórima Press, is forthcoming. He currently resides on the Fort Mojave Indian Reservation in Mohave Valley, Arizona.

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.

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Gary Budden writes fiction and creative non-fiction about the intersections of British sub-culture, landscape, psychogeography, hidden history, nature, horror, weird fiction and more. He is the author of Hollow Shores (Dead Ink, 2017) and London Incognita (Dead Ink, 2020) among other titles. He is co-founder and co-editor of Influx Press. 

Fernando Sdrigotti is one of the members of the Minor Literature[s] cargo cult. His latest book is JOLTS. Twitter: @f_sd

Music: Quarantine Hotline, by Also Known as Ariel. 

As closing act to The Quarantine Hotline (for now) some of the people that make the magazine possible meet up online for a catch up. Tune in for book recommendations, news about the magazine, or just to eavesdrop a bit.

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Kevin Mullen, Lara Alonso Corona, Eli Lee, and Fernando Sdrigotti are members of the Minor Literature[s] cargo cult.

Music: opening credits, Aerosilla, Charlie Egg; closing tune, Salvador, Audiodélica. Both used under Creative Commons.

For the eighteenth episode of The Quarantine Hotline Fernando Sdrigotti talks to Carolina Orloff, editor of Edinburgh-based Charco Press.

Tune in to hear them talk about Latin American literature in translation, the joys and sorrows of introducing Latin American literature to foreign audiences, the nomination of one of their books — Gabriela Cabezón Cámara's The Adventures of China Iron (translated by Fiona Mckintosh & Iona Macintyre — to the Booker Prize, among other things

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Carolina Orloff is a writer, translator, scholar on translation theory, and editor of Charco Press. She’s original from Buenos Aires and now lives in Ediumburgh.

Fernando Sdrigotti is one of the members of the Minor Literature[s] cargo cult. His latest book is JOLTS. Twitter: @f_sd

Music: opening credits, Aerosilla, Charlie Egg; closing tune, Llegan los cuerpos, Maitreya. Both songs licensed under Creative Commons and released by Planeta X.

For the seventeenth episode of The Quarantine Hotline Fernando Sdrigotti talks to Eliza Clark, originally from Newcastle, now living in London, UK.

Tune in to hear them discuss her debut novel Boy Parts, diversity and class in publishing, the North versus South divide in the British literary scene, and the scourge of literal readers, among other things.

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Eliza Clark has relocated from her native Newcastle back to London, where she previously attended Chelsea College of Art. She hosts podcast You Just Don’t Get It, Do You? with her partner. Boy Parts — published by Influx Press — is her first novel.

Fernando Sdrigotti is one of the members of the Minor Literature[s] cargo cult. His latest book is JOLTS. Twitter: @f_sd

Music: opening credits, Aerosilla, Charlie Egg; closing tune, Decilo, Martín Arias. Both songs licensed under Creative Commons and available from PXVA 2020, a compilation of music from Rosario, Argentina, by arts collective and label Planeta X.

For the sixteenth episode of The Quarantine Hotline Fernando Sdrigotti talks to Mo. Mesrati, who is from Libya but currently lives in Manchester, UK. Some of the topics discussed where second language writing, letting go of the mother tongue in order to make sense of the present, the dreaded question "where are you from?" in times of intolerance, and creating one's own club when the existing clubs don't want you as a member, or aren't fit for purpose.

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Mo Mesrati is a Manchester-based Libyan writer and editor of Akhir Qissa, a new literary blog with the purpose of publishing Arabic-language writing. Twitter: @mo_mesrati.

Fernando Sdrigotti is one of the members of the Minor Literature[s] cargo cult. His latest book is JOLTS. Twitter: @f_sd

Music: opening credits, Aerosilla, Charlie Egg; interval song, Abacus 700, Andrés Mantello; closing tune, Uptap, Klezmer Karoake Kit. All songs licensed under Creative Commons and available from PXVA 2020, a compilation of music from Rosario, Argentina, by arts collective and label Planeta X.

For the fifteenth episode of no longer new Quarantine Hotline series, Fernando Sdrigotti speaks to Sylvia Warren, from Oxford, UK.

Some of the topics discussed were short stories, the influence of science and biology in her writing, myth, womanhood and/versus nature, and editing for 3:AM Magazine.

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Sylvia Warren is a writer and academic editor. Her fiction has been published in the Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Anthology, Open Pen, Berfrois, Rituals & Declarations, and The Arsonista amongst others. She is a contributing editor at 3:AM Magazine. You can find her on Twitter @sylvswarren and read some of her writing here.

Music: opening credits, Aerosilla, Charlie Egg; closing tune, Respiración Cutáneo, Irina Cagnin. Both songs licensed under Creative Commons and available from PXVA 2020, a compilation of music from Rosario, Argentina, by arts collective and label Planeta X.