Cherry Book Awards is delighted to share that Romila Chitturi has been chosen as The Literary Champion, 2022.
Dr. Romila Chitturi is Founder and Editor in Chief of Unicorn. She has a PhD in Business Management, Post Graduate degrees in Business Administration, Public Relations and Digital Marketing and she graduated in Journalism and English Literature, followed by courses in Instagram marketing, film writing and creative writing from Ruskin Bond. She is Book reviewer at Writers Around The World on Instagram, Programme Head (India) at Ukiyoto Publishing and Editor (Non fiction), Miroiter Magazine. Apart from all this she is an artist, writer, author, ex-blogger, poetess, columnist, film producer, masterclass guru, speaker and a brand consultant. She has authored 18 books and out of which few of them have won literary awards. She’s winner of – Super brain of India, Ms Intellectual, Top Blogger of India, Best Power packed Characterisation, Sahitya Ratna Award- Top 30 Literary Icons of 2021 and Sylvia Plath Memorial Women’s Literary Prize 2022. She worked as a Research Analyst at IIM Ahmedabad and her work has been published in Times of India, Femina, Elle, Eternal Solutions, Insite, Pratiyogita Darpan, Competition Success Review, Competition Refresher, Civil Service Chronicle, Careers360, Outlook. Civil Service India, WomensWeb, Blogchatter, Paycheck India, ShepeopleTv, Penmancy, SpeakingTree, Youth Ki Awaaz, Literary Things, One Frame Stories, The Odyssey, The Remnant Archive, The Blahcksheep, HydRawZine, Yours Truly magazine, LitGleam magazine, the Eagle eye and Div Writes. She reads a lot of thrillers, loves her strong coffee, prefers the colour pink. She is Delhi born, raised and educated and lives in Hyderabad.
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All About Romila Chitturi
When Romila started Unicorn magazine in 2020 during the great pandemic, she never knew she was building a brand, a new entity worth a recognition. Surprise growth, surprise partnership and great community relations in the writing industry helped her to scale her dream into a business.
It was in 2009 she thought of owning a magazine and turning into an entrepreneur. 11 years of polishing her writing and editing skills, learning the art of publishing business to making contacts and networking and building her own personal identity, contributed to make Unicorn a reality.
For few and many, Unicorn is a synonym of Romila to which many writers and creators will agree. Romila, who has set an example of inspiration and self made persona is a Writer/Blogger/Author/Editor with more than 20 years of experience and she says, “magazine(s) on literature and art were annually or were run as blogs (hardly with regular updates) and not in print or anything exclusively dedicated, that’s how Unicorn was born”.
Romila started Unicorn (without any team) by herself with intention, where writers and artists from all walks, all ages, stages could showcase their work/ideas without being scared of unwanted judgements. And she is happy to say today at Unicorn we have people from early stages of writing/creating to advanced levels, all contributing to the magazine, interacting and growing together.
Unicorn is a team of 2 who takes care of editorial, social media, creativity, design, sales, marketing and accounts. It operates from Hyderabad and Delhi. Family of Unicorn artists stands at 250 currently and Romila is confident that by the end of 2022, it will be a family of more than 300 members.
We all know Romila, the face of Unicorn which connects most of the artists ( of all kinds – writers to painters to photographers) today with a strong literary and creative bond but we less know about her, she is one of the most funniest and simple women and surprisingly grocery shopping and desserts make her very happy.
In 2021 Unicorn was bestowed with “The Pride of India” and “Rabindranath Tagore International Prize of Art and Literature” award additionally, the brand hosted the first annual literary awards and released the first annual anthology which became internationally successful.
After 5 years Romila says “I see myself still behind the magazine, hustling and building dreams with words, ideas for better writing with a much larger family of writers, taking their work to the next best level internationally.”
Romila has not only given writers, artists and any one creative – new and old, a print and digital platform to write and showcase their talent but also helps them to stand out in the crowd and make their own identity with her mentorship programs and classes.
Apart from publishing the magazine, Unicorn renders editing and proofreading services to writers/authors/bloggers. “The projects undertaken by us have been sold internationally and we wish to get more books and meaningful content in the coming time”, she says.
Romila lives her life in stories, she strongly believes “every person’s story is unique and every story matters, this is how the world runs”. Prior to founding Unicorn magazine, Romila worked as a features writer, research analyst and assistant editor.
Her work has been featured in Youth Ki Awaz, Women’sWeb, ShePeopleTv, The Odyssey, Literary Voice, Vibrant magazine, Turning point Media, Fame publishing, The Remnant Archive, The Blahcksheep, HydRawzine and more.
Nonfiction writing is her strength, but whenever she wrote fiction – short and long stories it has won her awards such as Best Storyteller and Best power packed characterisation. She has 18 books to her name. She enjoys teaching “the art of story telling” and someday wishes to see her name on the big screen as a story writer of a movie.
To get associated or be a part of Unicorn family as an artist, you can drop her an email – writeforunicorn@gmail.com or follow on Instagram – @magazineunicorn
