Writer • Maine Literary Award winner • BOTN and Pushcart nominee • Associate Editor @midlvlmag.bsky.social • Short story collection forthcoming from Littoral Books
Portfolio: www.willwilloughby.com
Escape room: www.riddlehaven.com
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Excited to report I just signed a contract with Littoral Books to publish a short story collection! Scheduled for spring 2027 release. 🎉
If you’d like to know more, sign up for my newsletter, where I reflect on the writing process and give updates on my work, at www.willwilloughby.com.
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I was wearing my winter coat last week.
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I’ve got a new short story today in Discretionary Love. Pro tip: read it while listening to the song. www.discretionarylove.com/fade-into-you/
I just wrote my first note on Substack
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You love to see it! I can't wait for this collection.
Will is *checks script for what he was instructed to say* a true mentor to me, destined to be...uh... *checks notes again* ...right, to be a literary legend. 🙂
COVER REVEAL: I'm super excited to share the cover of my story collection After Last Call, coming out next April from @malarkeybooks.bsky.social. And thanks to @mrwojorising.bsky.social for the amazing work he did designing the cover 💙
Pre-order link: malarkeybooks.com/store/afterl...
New story, "Sleepover," in the new @southeastreview.bsky.social! Thanks to Neal Hammons and the whole staff for putting me alongside these terrific writers in this terrific-looking issue!
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Ten days left to enter the 2026 @mooncitypress.bsky.social Moon City Short Fiction Award competition!
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Paige Kaptuch
Jim Parisi
Ryan T. Pozzi
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Her toes, nails painted lilac to match her fingernails, pressed into the windshield, above the inspection sticker.
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• The Moon City Short Fiction Award is for an original collection of short fiction, written originally in English by a single or collaborative author.
• Individual pieces in the collection may be publ...
Excited to report I just signed a contract with Littoral Books to publish a short story collection! Scheduled for spring 2027 release. 🎉
If you’d like to know more, sign up for my newsletter, where I reflect on the writing process and give updates on my work, at www.willwilloughby.com.
#AmWriting
Whatever your intolerable situation is, you’ve rightly decided to take a nice long coma until it all blows over.
get your subs ready, we open at midnight (and fiction often hits the cap within a day or two)
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Whatever your intolerable situation is, you’ve rightly decided to take a nice long coma until it all blows over.
