Publications & Awards

Spring Issue 72, 2023
The Penn Review

Finalist, 2023 Fiction Contest
New Ohio Review

Finalists, 2024 Flash Fiction Contest
Raleigh Review, forthcoming

3rd Place, 2021 Short Fiction Contest
CRAFT, selected by Kirstin Valdez Quade

Judge’s Note: In “Just the Thing for a Day Like This,” the newlywed young mother of a vulnerable premature newborn finds herself haunted by her husband’s first wife, resented by their teenage son, and an outsider in their family home. The author is precisely attuned to the subtly shifting moods among the characters, to the stinging barbs that wound each of them, and to the tiny, valiant acts of love. The story transports the reader utterly to the claustrophobic pressured interior of this house in the hot desert outskirts of Los Angeles, and every scene is tightly coiled and ready to spring. — Kirstin Valdez Quade

1st Place, 2020 Stubborn Artists Contest
Chestnut Review, selected by Siamak Vossoughi

Editor’s Note: Cyn Nooney’s “Here is How” offers a powerful perspective on expectations, anxiety, and parenting. — James Rawlings

2nd Place, 2020 Flash Fiction Contest
Fractured Lit, selected by Megan Giddings

Judge’s Note: I've been thinking about this story in a few ways. It touches on desire, rage, misogyny, identity. It's also somehow a little funny. It is also deeply withholding and refuses at the end to explain or soothe its reader. This story captures the uncomfortableness of being alive and a woman in a place that does not like women very much.” — Megan Giddings

1st Runner-Up, 2020 Anton Chekhov Prize for Very Short Fiction
New Flash Fiction Review, selected by Hugh-Behm Steinberg

Prizewinner, 2021 Anthology 1

Fractured Lit, selected by Kathy Fish

A distraught woman deals with a scammer on the day Kobe Bryant dies.
Ursa Minor, 2020

Quarterfinalist, Short Screenplay (Drama)

PAGE International Screenwriting Awards

Semifinalist, Short Script Lab

WeScreenplay

Finalist, Flash Prose Contest

Midway Journal

Grand Prize Winner, Cinematic Short Story Competition

ScreenCraft

Finalist, Curt Johnson Prose Award for Fiction

december Magazine

Semifinalist, American Short(er) Fiction Prize

American Short Fiction

Shortlisted, Flash Fiction Contest

The Masters Review

Longlisted, Exeter Story Prize

CWM

Finalist, Flash Fiction Contest

Split Lip Magazine