About Cyn Nooney
Cynthia (Cyn) House Nooney is an award-winning writer whose stories and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The South Carolina Review, Raleigh Review, New Ohio Review, The Penn Review, CRAFT, The New York Times, and elsewhere. She won ScreenCraft's 2022 Cinematic Short Story Competition and was a Jesmyn Ward Fiction Prize finalist in 2024. Additional prizes include 1st Runner-Up for Anton Chekhov Prize for Very Short Fiction and winner of Chestnut Review’s Stubborn Artists contest.
Her first-ever screenplay earned placements in The Script Lab, Fade In, WeScreenplay Short Script Lab, Roadmap Writers, and PAGE International Screenwriting Awards.
Cyn earned an MFA in fiction from Pacific University and her work has been supported by Vermont Studio Center, Community of Writers at Olympic Valley, and Iowa Writers’ Summer Workshop. Recently she was invited to attend Sidewalk Narrative Lab (screenwriting), hosted by Stowe Story Labs.
Prior to her writing career she was a media executive with beloved posts at Home Sports Entertainment in Dallas, where she earned over 25 regional and national marketing awards, and later, as VP Marketing and Sales at E! Entertainment Television and The Style Network in Los Angeles.
Cyn finds great joy working one-on-one with other writers, including students, and is available for consultation at flexible fees. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she writes short stories and screenplays.
“You alone are enough.”
“Like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.”
“After all, hope is a form of planning.”