Cinders Zine

Category: Books and Authors

  • Favourite fictional feminists: part one

    Leslie Knope Leslie Knope is the world’s most optimistic government employee. She is also a staunch feminist, wants to be Gloria Allred when she grows up and is one of the most competent and hard working characters to ever grace our TV screens. Portrayed by the wonderful Amy Poehler in NBC’s Parks and Recreation, Leslie…

  • Book Review Corner: Fathers Come First By Rosita Sweetman

      First published in Cinders Volume One: Issue Two It’s been a long time since I read a book that felt so much like the memoir of a very old friend. But that’s how Rosita Sweetman’s voice come across on the pag es of Fathers Come First. First printed in 1974, Lilliput Press have re-released…

  • Why Gilmore Girls is a modern adaptation of Little Women

    Why Gilmore Girls is a modern adaptation of Little Women

    First published in Cinders magazine issue two. Little Women is the first ‘grown up’ movie I can ever remember watching and it truly stuck with me. More than 15 years later and it can still make me cry. But that first viewing was like opening a door to a world I never knew existed. I couldn’t…

  • Worlds Collide: When Rainbow met Leigh

    Worlds Collide: When Rainbow met Leigh

    This article was first published in issue one of Cinders magazine. Two fantastic YA worlds collided when authors Rainbow Rowell and Leigh Bardugo came together for a fantastic author event in Dublin in October. Méabh McDonnell was delighted to be in the audience for the event, where she was able to bring us the low…