Writing Magazine

CARO GILES

Caro Giles lives in Northumberland. She is a musician, teacher and was BBC Countryfile magazine’s New Nature Writer of the Year 2021. With four daughters, when does she find time to write?

‘I have to create windows of time for writing as I almost never have childcare for all of my children,’ she says. ‘I usually get up very early and do an hour or two before the kids wake. I also work weekends when I have fewer appointments and advocating to do as part of my

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