Introducing Hot Flush Zine: Pilot Edition

Back in 2023, while walking the South West Coast Path with my daughter, I had an idea for a creative zine about menopause.

As these things tend to do, that idea grew legs and wandered off in several different directions… and Hot Flush became a blog, community events, Menopause Meet-Ups and creative projects.

But I never quite let go of the zine.

So this year, I decided it was time to bring the original idea back to life. Hot Flush: Pilot Edition brings together seven creative contributors; artists, a poet, a storyteller, and a printmaker, to explore the lived experience of perimenopause and menopause through art, writing, and storytelling.

They are: Mary Mulholland, Coleen Duff, Amanda Lynch, Karina Digby-Jones, Nicky Ruddick, Kate German and me, Sharon Gale.

After weeks of designing, editing, emailing, proofing, tweaking, I’m finally holding one in my hands. If you’d like a copy, click the button, which will take you to the Hot Flush shop.

And there’s more good news…

Soft Launch at Barnstaple Library

Saturday 17th October, 2–4pm

Barnstaple Library have kindly agreed that I can have a soft launch of Hot Flush: Pilot Edition alongside my Engage Your Rage: Menopause Rewrite workshop, which is taking place in the library foyer that afternoon.

So if you’re coming along to the workshop, you’ll get to see the zine in the flesh, and copies will be available to buy at £5 each.