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Queen takes Crown – Interview with Diana Mirza
First published in Cinders issue four Sixteen year old Diana Mirza recently won the World Schools Under-17 Chess Championship.She is Ireland’s first ever world chess champion and has filled Cinders in on openings, tactics, non stop practice, and how it’s never too late to get into chess. When did you start playing chess? I started…
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Book Review Corner: Like Other Girls by Claire Hennessy
First published in Volume One: Issue Four Like other Girls is an important book. And it’s an honest book. In short it’s a book that every Irish girl needs to read. It tells the story of bisexual teen Lauren, who finds herself up against a wall when she discovers she’s pregnant and definitely does not…
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16 things I wish to tell my 16 year old self
First published in issue one of Cinders magazine I wrote this piece on my 26th birthday, thinking about all of the things I would tell my 16 year old self if I could. I then performed the piece at the Cinders magazine official launch on December 16, 2016. You can view my performance here, kindly…