Elisa Sinnett

Hey! It finally happened! The book has been accepted for publication in April 2021 by Flexible Press.

Check out all the news at my new website elisasinnett.com

and https://www.flexiblepub.com/detroit-fairy-tales

https://www.yesyesbooks.com/post/2019-open-reading-period-fiction-semifinalists

Hey good news! I’m working on a final, final version of the Detroit Fairy Tales because it’s a semifinalist in the yesyesbooks open reading period, and I have til November 1st to turn in the final manuscript. Wow. I better figure out what’s next! This is crazy great!

Lisa Sinnett

Sadly, this awesome magazine’s editor went in a different direction and is doing her own writing! So here, live forever on the Internet is the story Meant to Disturb. I published this one back in 2012 and it was nominated for “The Best of the Net” in 2012. I didn’t win, but it’s good to know that even being a rookie at publishing, some people were paying attention!

http://hipmamazine.com/elisa-anne-sinnett-night-of-the-little-departed-angels/

Here’s a story that was published on HipMama, one of my favorite online/print magazines. This story is a mixture of fictional and true characters and events. It occurred during the time when I was single parenting my two children in the neighborhood where  my children spent a good part of their childhood.

The artist, Debranne Dominguez, spent a good deal of time in SW Detroit when she was growing up, and these paintings are a reflection of that time as well as the story itself.

What They Were Told—Detroit 1967

So here it is, the first story in my finally! Completed draft of Dispatches from Detroit.  I’ve got a few readers who are giving me some feedback, but then I’m hoping to pitch the collection to be published in book form! Thanks for reading! -eLisa

10 13 No Organic Allowed

Stealing Time Volume 1 Issue 3 Spring 2013 Quarterly Review by Holly Zemsta

Stealing Time is a magazine for, about, and by parents. When I discovered its existence, I was immediately intrigued, yet wary as well. Would it have an angle, an agenda to promote? Would it rise above the content of most parenting magazines out there? Thankfully, the answers are no and yes. Stealing Time lives up to its mission statement: “To provide a venue for quality literary content about parenting: no guilt, no simple solutions, no mommy wars.” Published quarterly, with an additional annual issue on pregnancy and childbirth, the magazine features a theme for each issue, this issue’s being “Relations.” Like the magazine’s take on parenting itself, the theme seems open to interpretation, which I found to be a positive thing.

My favorite piece in the magazine is Lisa Sinnett’s “No Organic Allowed,” a story that begins as a deceptively simple day in the life of a woman in Detroit. Elisa has just dug her car out after a blizzard so she can take her two small children to the supermarket. She needs to go because she has just received her WIC coupons and they are desperate for food. The conflict of the story comes when the cashier refuses to let her purchase organic cheese, despite the fact that it’s on sale and is the same price as regular, WIC-approved cheese. As the people behind her grumble and the cashier and manager treat her with barely veiled contempt, Elisa remains calm, even when her toddler ends up wetting her clothes. After leaving, she returns home to find the parking spot she labored to clear taken by someone else, yet she still manages to find hope in the nearby pine tree that is “still living, growing, and rooted in its own space.” The story is a heartbreaking, human look into the reality of poverty.

Stealing Time also features wonderful black-and-white photography that serves as the perfect backdrop to each of the pieces. I enjoyed almost all the work in the magazine, and I felt that this is a quality addition to the lit mag world that anyone, parent or not, would enjoy reading. It’s a thoughtful look at the world of parenting, but with a broad enough lens that everyone is included.