About

Who is he?

This is the image William has recently been using for publicity purposes but the dimensions of the image are unusual and it often does not fit into social media posts the way he expects it to fit.

This is the image William has recently been using for publicity purposes but the dimensions of the image are unusual and it often does not fit into social media posts the way he expects it to fit.

Here is the bio provided to literary journals and all others who ask for it:

William Ping is a novelist and journalist, born and raised in St. John’s. His debut novel Hollow Bamboo was published by HarperCollins in 2023 and was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the BMO Winterset Award, and the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award as well as being longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, and the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award. He has previously been published in ‘Us, Now,’ Hard Ticket and Riddle Fence. William is also known for his contributions to CBC News, where he can most often be heard reading the news.