Cinders Zine

Category: Books and Authors

  • Teenage Dreams – An Interview with Claire Hennessy

    First published in Cinders Issue Three Claire Hennessy has been a published writer since she was twelve. Since the release of her first book Dear Diary, she has been at the forefront of Irish teen literature. Now as a children’s book editor and author she has even more feathers in her very large cap! Meabh…

  • Unusual Beauties and their Beasts continued

    Unusual Beauties and their Beasts continued

    First published in Cinders issue three What with the new adaptation of Beauty and the Beast hitting our screens earlier in the year it got us here in Cinders thinking about some of our favourite unconventional interpretations of the classic fairytale. Méabh McDonnell looks at the ways the tale as old as time can be interpreted.

  • Beauties and their Beasts

    Beauties and their Beasts

    First published in Cinders issue three What with the new adaptation of Beauty and the Beast hitting our screens earlier in the year it got us here in Cinders thinking about some of our favourite unconventional interpretations of the classic fairytale. Méabh McDonnell looks at the ways the tale as old as time can be interpreted.…

  • Write what you need – An interview with Meg Grehan

    First Published in Cinders Issue Four Last issue we had the pleasure of reviewing Meg Grehan’s gorgeous verse novel, The Space Between. This month editor Méabh McDonnell was delighted to talk to Meg about her writing inspiration, mental health and poetry. 1.What was the inspiration for The Space Between?  It wasn’t inspiration so much as…

  • Hermione herself

    First published in Cinders magazine issue four When I was ten years old I reluctantly began to read Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. I say reluctant because when I was seven I had the unfortunate experience of hearing the second last chapter of the book, completely out of context. It gave me a very…

  • Recommended Reads: Lauren Nicolle Taylor, Moira Fowley Doyle, Renée Ahdieh

    Recommended Reads: Lauren Nicolle Taylor, Moira Fowley Doyle, Renée Ahdieh

    Here are what Cinders magazine’s writers are reading this month!

  • Book Review Corner: The Space Between by Meg Grehan

    First published in Cinders volume issue three Spoken word novels are a new trend in YA literature. We saw it with last year’s highly successful One by Sarah Crossan and Meg Grehan’s The Space Between uses the same format. And it uses it so very well.  Once you are a few pages into The Space…

  • Double, Double Write Some Trouble – an interview with Erica McGann

    First published in Cinders Volume One Issue two Erika McGann is a young writer from Drogheda, now living in Dublin.  Erika has written four books in her Demon Notebook series and is just about to release the first book in her mystery series for children: Cass and the Bubble Street Gang. The Demon Notebook series…

  • Recommended reads: Laini Taylor, Sarah J. Maas and Meg Grehan

    First published in Volume One Issue Three Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor Strange the Dreamer is pure magic. that’s no surprise because it’s written by Laini Taylor, who writes only beautiful things. Her Daughter of Smoke and Bone series is a thing of pure beauty and her Dreamdark series are the badass fairytales that…

  • Favourite fictional feminists: part two

    Jane Villeneuva Jane is the protagonist of the CW’s fantastic Jane the Virgin, a single mother, who is incredibly devoted to her family. The series kicks off with her being ‘accidentally, artificially inseminated’ leading to her unexpected pregnancy. Jane is a wonderful character to watch, optimistic and brave but grounded – she never becomes annoying.…