
Serena Arthur
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Commissioning Editor at @wearefootnote/@bonnierbooks_uk 📚| Current-ish poet & Ex-Bham Young Poet Laureate| @_creativeaccess & @mansfieldoxford alum| she/her ✨
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We're excited to share the cover for Refuge by Sunny Singh, publishing 7th August. 'Superb. An incandescent, charged and propulsive work.' Irenosen Okojie Spanning decades and continents, Refuge shines a light on those who are often overlooked in stories about war.


.Footnote Press, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK, has acquired The Mires by Tina Makereti, which was recently shortlisted for the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 👇 thebookseller.com/rights/footnot…

Announcing yet another gem on our growing Footnote Press fiction list: THE MIRES by Tina Makereti - a novel about people, prejudice, power, the pressures on our humanity, fire, flood and what connects us ✨ Publishing this Sept with stunning cover reveal and proofs to come ☺️




Out in August 2025, my new book from Footnote Press: #Refuge: Stories of War and Love) “delves into the darkest parts of the human psyche whilst being an ode to humanity’s ability to endure, love and retain dignity and compassion.” footnotepress.com/books/refuge-s…

COMING THIS SUMMER Archive of Unknown Universes by Ruben Reyes Jr. (Ruben Reyes Jr.) is a sweeping literary love story following two couples in different timelines of the Salvadorian civil war. geni.us/UnknownUnivers…


Please support your local indie press. They are doing most of the heavy lifting in finding Great new writers and stories. The Bookseller Books Are My Bag Jacaranda Books Oneworld Publications Comma Press🍉 #CeasefireNow Galley Beggar Press Peepal Tree Press Dead Ink Books Little Toller 🇺🇦🇵🇸


So exited to be bringing Ruben Reyes Jr.'s stunning writing to the UK this summer as part of my list at Footnote Press/Bonnier Books UK 🥺🎉 you're all in for a treat with this beautiful speculative love story ✨


🎉 The 2025 winner of the prestigious Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize is YASMIN ZAHER for her brilliant, 'borderless' debut novel, 'The Coin.' 🏆 Congratulations to Yasmin and all at Footnote Press! 📰 bit.ly/SUDTP25Winner #SUDTP25

Congratulations to Yasmin Zaher who has woken up to a bright spring morning here in Swansea as the 2025 Swansea University Dylan Thomas Prize WINNER 🏆. Her debut novel, 'The Coin' was the judges unanimous pick in an incredibly strong shortlist of titles by 6 amazing authors. #SUDTP25


'And the winner is.....Yasmin Zaher, 'The Coin'' 📙🏆 A lovely image of Yasmin and Serena Arthur (Commissioning Editor at Footnote Press) at the moment of the winning announcement. #SUDTP25


We're so thrilled to share that Yasmin Zaher's novel, The Coin, has won the Dylan Thomas Prize (dylanthomprize)! Massive congratulations to Yasmin! The Dylan Thomas Prize celebrates the best published literary work in the English language by an author aged 39 or under.



A wonderful hour spent in the company of our 2025 winner, Yasmin Zaher at Hay Festival! Such fascinating, honest, and detailed answers to a varied range of searching questions from Prize director, Elaine Canning. #SUDTP25 #HayFestival


A final flourish of photos from yesterday's fantastic day at Hay Festival! We are so thankful to have had so many turn up to hear from Yasmin Zaher, this year's worthy winner of our prize. #SUDTP25



Our 2025 winner Yasmin Zaher ('The Coin') will be at jaipurlitfest London at the British Library on 15th June for a very special session with fellow debut novelist and journalist Reeta Chakrabarti ('Finding Belle'). For weekend/day/online passes, please visit: events.bl.uk/events/jlf-lon…
