NOON has published stories by Tao Lin, Garielle Lutz, Dawn Raffel, Sam Lipsyte, Ottessa Moshfegh, Roxane Gay, Dylan Nice, Anya Yurchyshyn, Rhoads Stevens, Annie DeWitt, Karl Roloff, and R.O.
Kwon, and regularly publishes Christine Schutt, Deb Olin Unferth, Clancy Martin, Lydia Davis, Rebecca Curtis, Brandon Hobson, Kathryn Scanlan, Greg Mulcahy, Vi Khi Nao, Kim Chinquee, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Susan Laier, Rob Walsh, Ashton Politanoff, Lucie Elven, Kayla Blatchley, Nathan Dragon, Tetman Callis, Robert Tindall, and others.
Several NOON contributors have published debut, critically acclaimed short story collections in 2020: Souvankham Thammavongsa, with How To Pronounce Knife (Little, Brown and Company);[2] Kathryn Scanlan, with The Dominant Animal (MCD/FSG, 2020);[3] and Mary South, with You Will Never Be Forgotten (FSG Originals).
"[6] In the May/June 2014 issue of Poets & Writers, Travis Kurowski wrote, "NOON contains prose chiseled to its barest, most arresting essence--a concision attributed by most to Williams's high demands as an editor."
In the Los Angeles Times on March 19, 2013, David Ulin wrote, "The new issue of Noon landed last week, and as usual, it’s a compendium of unlikely pleasures: short prose and illustrations that challenge us to think about meaning and narrative.
This independent, not-for-profit annual features essays, fiction, interviews, art, and translation that are as diverse as its contributors, who are both published and previously unpublished and come from international backgrounds.
"[11] Time Out New York said "Even if it shares some authors with mainstream publishers, Noon still shimmers with courage, strangeness and unknown voices" and that editor Diane Williams "has a penchant for devout stylists and squirm-inducing topics.