Noon

Augusta GrossDrawingsKim ChinqueeBooks Formation Slope A Slight Hole That Undid Itself Tabloid Deb Olin UnferthLa Pena Jibade-Khalil HuffmanA Paramour Deanna DikemanPhotographs Christine SchuttOnly the Sun to Go By Tobias SchneebaumDrawings Yasmine AlwanWhen I My Friend Said Where the Sand Started He Couldn't Decide In the 99 Clancy MartinThe Happiest When We Meet Upon the Other Side Michael C. MurrayMistflower Rahul MehtaBeauty The Cure Einar NoreliusThe 3 Singing Trolls (Translated by Lydia Davis from Swedish with illustrations by the author) NOON is a literary annual founded in 2000 by American author Diane Williams. The 10th Anniversary Edition launched March 2009.NOON publishes fiction and occasional essays. A full table of contents, including back issues, is available on the NOON website. The magazine has been described as a "beautifully-produced literary journal that features the strongest offbeat writing from a select group of literary stylists." In 2007, Deb Olin Unferth told Bookslut that NOON founder and editor Diane Williams "inspires excellence and demands discipline. More than an editor, she is an editor-artist."NOON stories have won numerous awards and prizes.Diane Williams (born 1946) is an American author, primarily of short stories. She lives in New York City and is the founder and editor of the literary annual NOON. She is the author of seven books, including her selected stories published by Dalkey Archive Press in 1998.