articles
Here is a selection of my most recently published articles, interviews and media mentions which are available online:
Interview/ profile in the Guardian, July 2026: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jul/18/hagitude-author-sharon-blackie-at-60-i-wasnt-ready-to-give-up-i-was-just-starting
Interview on Ripening in the British Psychological Society’s magazine The Psychologist, April 2026
Ripening extract on Literary Hub, June 2026
Interview on Ripening for the Audible blog, May 2026
Featured in Guardian Editorial on ‘The Pennine Way: a Pioneer of Long-Distance Soul Therapy’. April 2025
Interviewed on midlife/ menopause for Women’s Health Magazine, March 2025
Quoted in: ‘Whatever happened to middle age? The mysterious case of the disappearing life stage.’ The Guardian, February 2023
‘Menopause is a moment for women to welcome, not dread.’ The i, September 2022
Interview: ‘Hagitude: Why women entering the menopause should embrace their inner crone.’ Positive News, December 2022
‘In our culture, old women are mostly ignored – but it hasn’t always been that way.’ The Journal.ie, August 2022
‘Matriarch of the Glen: walking the Highlands’ hidden pilgrim trail’. The Guardian, November 2019
‘Roman remains: a walk through history in Snowdonia’. The Guardian, December 2019
‘The power of fairy tales in women’s lives’. The Scotsman, October 2019
‘How Irish myth and folklore can inspire women to fight for ecological change’. Irish Times, October 2019
‘Love Letter to a Bog’. Caught by the River, 2016.
My writing has also appeared in the following recent anthologies:
Brian Froud’s Green Women. Abrams (2026)
Women on Nature, Katherine Norbury (ed) Unbound Books, UK (2021)
Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and John Hausdoerffer (eds) Center for Humans and Nature, Chicago, USA (2021)
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