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Jon Doyle

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Jon Doyle is a writer based in Port Talbot, south Wales. He holds various degrees from Cardiff University and a PhD in Creative Writing from Swansea University, and his work has appeared in Short Fiction, Hobart, Ploughshares Online, The Rumpus, 3:AM Magazine among other places. He was part of Literature Wales’ Representing Wales scheme in 2022/23, and won the Writers & Artists Working-Class Writers’ Prize 2023. His first novel, Communion, was published by Atlantic in April 2026 and is forthcoming in the US from Graywolf Press. He is an Observer Best Debut Novelist for 2026.