Craig Hoyle

In 2023, Hoyle published Excommunicated: A Multigenerational Story of Leaving the Exclusive Brethren through HarperCollins New Zealand.^[1]

The memoir recounts his childhood within the Exclusive Brethren, the circumstances of his excommunication, the breakdown of family relationships that followed, and his efforts to rebuild his life outside the church. It also documents his family's seven-generation experience with the Exclusive Brethren across two centuries.^[1]

The book received coverage and reviews in Stuff,^[5] The Waikato Times,^[6] Pacific Journalism Review,^[7] and Woman’s Day.^[2]

Hoyle discussed the memoir on Radio New Zealand,^[3] and on Newstalk ZB.^[4]

He has appeared at the Auckland Writers Festival,^[8] the Queenstown Writers Festival,^[9] Hamilton Book Month,^[6] Cambridge Family History Month,^[10] WOMAD,^[11] and the Decult conference.^[12]

Beyond his memoir, Hoyle has written as a senior journalist covering social issues, politics, and cultural topics. He reported from the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests of 2019.^[13]

His work has been published in The New York Times,^[14] Stuff, The Post, and the Sunday Star-Times.^[15]

He completed a 2014 dissertation titled Financially important yet voiceless: Representation of Asians in media coverage of the 2014 New Zealand General Election, available via Auckland University of Technology.^[16]

Hoyle is based in London, United Kingdom.^[17]