About Cyn Nooney

Cynthia (Cyn) House Nooney is an award-winning writer whose stories and essays have appeared in South Carolina Review, Texas Review, Raleigh Review, New Ohio Review, The Penn Review, CRAFT, The New York Times, and elsewhere. Cyn won the Ronald Moran Fiction Prize for her story “Sterling Recruit” (2025), ScreenCraft's Cinematic Short Story Competition for “Just the Thing for a Day Like This” (2022), and Chestnut Review’s Stubborn Artists Contest for “Here Is How” (2020). She was a finalist for the George Garrett Fiction Prize (2025, story collection), the Ninth Letter Literary Award (2025), the Jesmyn Ward Fiction Prize (2024), the 2023 New Ohio Review Fiction Prize (2023), and the Curt Johnson Prose Award for Fiction (2022). Additional prizes include 1st Runner-Up for Anton Chekhov Prize for Very Short Fiction (2020), Fractured Lit anthology winner (2021), and 3rd place for CRAFT Literary’s Short Fiction Prize (2021).

She is a former submission reader for Electric Literature.

Her first-ever screenplay earned placements in The Script Lab, Roadmap Writers, Inroads Fellowship, WeScreenplay Short Script Lab, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, and PAGE International Screenwriting Awards.

Cyn received an MFA in fiction from Pacific University and her work has been recognized by Vermont Studio Center, Community of Writers, Iowa Writers’ Summer Workshop, and Sidewalk Narrative Screenwriting Lab 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.