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Cheryl Robson
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Contributor, Freelance
London
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Biography
Cheryl Robson FRSA | Writer, editor, publisher, and filmmaker has been shortlisted by the itv National Diversity Awards twice for Entrepreneurship in 2022 and for Lifetime Achievement in 2019. She has been interviewed in the local and national press and on BBC Woman's Hour and other radio programmes. Her publishing company Aurora Metro Books was a finalist for Small Press of the Year in British Book Awards 2025. Cheryl was born in Australia and has lived also in Singapore, France, and UK. She studied Drama & French at University of Bristol then worked at the BBC in London for several years before setting up a theatre company (The Women's Theatre Workshop) producing and developing feminist plays. She gained a PGCE in Drama (Middlesex University) and an MA in Playwriting Studies (University of Birmingham) and went on to create the award-winning publishing company Aurora Metro Books, well-known for its diverse and inclusive range of titles. The company's highly curated list includes over 300 British and international writers, translations from over 20 languages, and drama with over a dozen unique world drama collections. Their books have won or been nominated for numerous literary and theatre awards and the company was shortlisted for the IPG National Diversity awards in 2019 and 2020. www.aurorametro.com. In 2023 she acquired the Amber Lane Press imprint and in 2025 launched a new imprint River Light Press with publishing partner Lucy Melville. As a book editor, her work has won the Pandora Prize from Women-in-Publishing, the Raymond Williams/Arts Council Publishing prize, a Special Jury Prize for Peace, Best Innovative Foodbook and Best Seasonal Foodbook from Gourmand World Cookbooks, been shortlisted for the People's Book prize and her book 'Silent Women; pioneers of cinema' was voted Best Book on silent film in 2016. As a playwright, she has won the Croydon Warehouse International Playwriting Competition, been shortlisted for the Roger Leach Memorial prize and longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize. Several of her plays have been produced to acclaim in London. She has edited or contributed to over 200 books with work also published in The Guardian, The Chicago Tribune, Culture Trip, Riviera News and more. Her film 'Rock n' Roll Island', has been selected for several film festivals in UK and USA, winning 4 awards including a Gold Remi at Houston Worldfest and was nominated at Raindance London. It was broadcast on BBC4 in 2020 garnering 750,000 views, a Sunday Times Critics Choice and Radio Times Pick of the week. www.cherylrobson.net. Cheryl is best-known for her leadership of the successful 5-year campaign to erect a statue of Virginia Woolf in Richmond which was unveiled in November 2022 on Richmond riverside. With the charity she founded, Aurora Metro Arts and Media (www.aurorametro.org), her team have delivered dozens of arts and education projects, funded by Arts Council, Heritage Lottery and many others, including exhibitions, workshops, readings, films, and a new archive project which aims to preserve local arts and music heritage www.metroarchives.org With husband Steve, she also co-founded a successful change management business EA Change www.eachange.com which, for over 20 years, has delivered thousands of projects for blue-chip clients internationally and was twice listed in the Sunday Times/Virgin fastest growing companies list. The couple successfully led a management buyout of the company in 2021 and now own the independent bookshop - Books on the Rise - in Richmond, (named best independent bookshop in SW London within the first year of opening), which offers weekly literary events with top authors. www.booksontherise.com
arts; culture; film; theatre; literature; publishing; translation; equality; feminism politics
I write for professional audiences, not for mass market readers seeking financial tips.
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Freelance
De Pere, Wisconsin, United States