Project archive: Events, Festivals and Awards
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The Nature Chronicles Prize
The Nature Chronicles Prize is a new biennial, international, English-language literary award. Its aim is to find engaging, unique, essay-length non-fiction that responds to the time we are in and the world as it is, challenging established notions of nature writing where necessary. The winner will receive £10,000 and five runners up £1,000 each. All six winning entries will be published in an anthology.
Byte The Book
Byte The Book’s network helps its members make useful connections within the book industry and other allied industries and enables them to understand their publishing options and become more literate in the business of books.
Their new website allows members to join and manage their membership online, update their public profile online, and use the members-only message board to network with their peers.
“Simon has just rebuilt the Byte The Book website and done a superb job, we’re over the moon and so proud of our lovely new site and all he has done for us. He and the team at Bookswarm are a joy to work with. Simon has an almost a psychic ability to understand exactly what you need, is incredibly intelligent, genuinely seems to want to help you and your business without fleecing you for every penny and has a really broad experience in the publishing industry, all of which combine in a beautiful confluence of wonder. Hats off to you sir! If you’re an author or a publishing company and need a new website, Simon is your man!”
Justine Solomons, Founder, Byte The Book
Bloody Scotland
Bloody Scotland established itself as the leading Scottish International Crime Writing Festival in 2012 with acclaimed writers Lin Anderson and Alex Gray at the helm, then joined by Craig Robertson and Gordon Brown. Based in Stirling, Bloody Scotland has brought hundreds of crime writers new and established to the stage with always enthusiastic attendees who make the festival every bit as much as the writers do.
“Simon and the Bookswarm team are always a delight to work with. Receiving an email from them is usually the highlight of my work day! They helped me rebuild and redesign the Bloody Scotland website from the ground up as it sorely needed to be refreshed to accommodate our rapidly expanding audience. They were able to capture exactly what I envisioned and presented in my design brief, making the whole process incredibly fast, efficient, and pain free. Our online ticket sales saw a sharp increase after the website’s redesign and I have little doubt its improved aesthetics and accessibility had a hand in that. I constantly recommend Bookswarm to any client looking for a new or refreshed website and strongly recommend you do too.”
Laura Jones, Bloody Scotland
The Book Marketing Society
The Book Marketing Society was launched in November 2004 with the objective of becoming the representative body of marketing within the book industry. We created the second version of this site in 2018 using an online membership site, including a members area where logged-in users can access a database of award-winning book marketing case studies.
Filotico Arts
Branding and website design for cultural consultancy and production company Filotico Arts.
Nielsen Bestseller Awards
Website showcasing the winners of the new Nielsen Bestseller Awards.
Carmelite Prize
The Carmelite Prize is an exciting award created to recognise excellence in children’s book illustration, with the aim of encouraging and inspiring the next generation of illustrators for children’s stories.
We created a microsite for Hachette Children’s to promote the prize and allow budding illustrators to enter.
Cityread London
Cityread London is an annual celebration of literature that aims to bring reading to life for the whole capital. Each April, Cityread asks London’s citizens, workers and visitors to pick up a book – the same book – and read it together. Taking the chosen novel as a starting point, a month-long programme of book groups, film screenings and other events takes place across all 33 London boroughs in libraries, bookshops, museums and other venues.
Royal Society of Literature
For nearly 200 years, the Royal Society of Literature has celebrated and nurtured all that is best in British literature, past and present.
Bookswarm has created a new responsive website to allow them to showcase their work and the great names among the RSL Fellows.
This was updated in 2017 to reflect the launch of the RSL’s Literature Matters campaign.
“Working on our new responsive site with Bookswarm has been an absolute joy. Simon and team have realised our brief perfectly, keeping the look and feel of our previous site whilst refreshing it and adding new, interesting features. They have been patient with us, as we are a small team, and understanding of our particular needs.”
Annette Brook, Communications Manager, Royal Society of Literature
Sports Book Awards
The British Sports Book Awards exist to highlight and give prominence to the very best sports books published in the previous calendar year.
