William Hall

William Hall is a journalist, former communications consultant, and writer of short fiction, who returned to his home state of Maine after 20 years in New York City and Boston. He works as the managing editor of Mainebiz magazine. Previously, Will served as business editor of the Portland Press Herald and The Maine Sunday Telegram.

In an earlier stint at Mainebiz, he shared a Silver Prize from an international journalism group, the Alliance of Area Business Publishers, for “Best Coverage of a National Economic Story.” Will has also been a reporter and copy editor at The Forecaster newspapers, and covered news for Portland Monthly, Southern Maine Business Digest, Profile, Rochester Business Journal, and Working Waterfront News. In New York, he served as editor for a fashion e-zine, PageDaily.com, and helped launch and edit a lifestyle magazine, ALTRA.

In his PR and marketing communications work, Will has written white papers, newsletters, sales literature, op-eds, executive speeches, and more for dozens of corporate clients, including Humana, Philips Electronics, McKesson, and McLean Hospital. He is a recipient of the Bell Ringer Award from the Publicity Club of New England and a Big Apple Award from the New York Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America.

Will’s short fiction has appeared in Portland Monthly, Casco Bay Weekly, and The Review, among other publications. He earned a bachelor’s degree in creative writing, magna cum laude, from Princeton University. There, he studied with Russell Banks and Mary Morris, and wrote a collection of short stories, "Summer People."