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  • Cinders Galentine’s Celebration Package!

    Cinders Galentine’s Celebration Package!

    Cinders has put together the best the internet has to offer in free content that will give you your perfect Galentine’s Day!

  • Best books of 2017 part one

    Turtles all the way down by John Green You’d have to be living under a large and leafy rock not to know that John Green (of Fault in our Stars and Vlogbrothers fame) has released a new book this October. Turtles all the Way Down is the newest volume about an unusual girl trying to…

  • Bell, book and candle – interview with Moïra Fowley Doyle

    Magic, mysticism and mystery are at the core of Moïra Fowley-Doyle’s novels, The Accident Season and this year’s The Spellbook of the Lost and Found. Set in rural Ireland they take normal girls and unravel the secrets of their past and defeat the demons of their present with spells, enchantment and dreams. We chatted to…

  • New year, new volume of Cinders

    New year, new volume of Cinders

    Get your free copy of Cinders magazine Volume two issue one out now!

  • Queen takes Crown – Interview with Diana Mirza

    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…

  • 16 things I wish to tell my 16 year old self

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • Drawn that Way – Our favourite comic heroines

    First published in issue one of Cinders Magazine We in Cinders love a good comic. Here are some of the best comic books and graphic novels with kick-ass, difficult, fabulous, brave female characters.  Ms Marvel The petite Ms Marvel may look small – but don’t say that to her face – she might just ‘embiggen’…