Tomoé Hill
ABOUT
Tomoé Hill is a US-born, London-based editor and writer whose writing has appeared or will be forthcoming in places such as Financial Times, The Spectator, The Spectator World, New Humanist, Asymptote, Recessed.Space, and Vestoj. She co-wrote a monthly feature as part of the duo XX and XY, reviewing classic erotic literature for Rowan Pelling's The Amorist during its time as a print magazine. Songs for Olympia, a response to The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat by Michel Leiris, was included in Granta's Books of the Year 2023.
BOOKS & ANTHOLOGIES
Songs for Olympia (Sagging Meniscus Press, 2023)
Press: Granta, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Strange Flowers, minor literature[s] (interview), Beyond the Zero (interview), Galley Beggar, Out & Back, The Hobbyhorse (interview), Vol. 1 Brooklyn (interview), 3:AM Magazine
Trauma: Essays on Art and Mental Health (Dodo Ink, 2021), Editors: Sam Mills and Thom Cuell
Essay: Inheritance is Silence
Press: TLS
Love Bites: Fiction Inspired by Pete Shelley and Buzzcocks (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2019), Editors: Andrew Gallix, C.D. Rose, Tomoé Hill
Autofiction: Orgasm Addict
Press: 3:AM Magazine
Azimuth: The Ecology of an Ear (Sonic Art Research Unit at Oxford Brookes University, 2019), Editor: Patrick Farmer
Essay: Oval Window
Press: The Wire, Issue 427
We'll Never Have Paris (Repeater Books, 2019), Editor: Andrew Gallix
Essay: Pilgrimage
Press: TLS, Financial Times, The London Magazine
OTHER WRITING, ETC.
(XX and XY pieces from minor literature[s] as well as those featured in The Amorist are now in The Recycling section; other selected work will also be relocated there.)
2024
Interview (with Adam Moody) for Songs for Olympia, The Hobbyhorse, January
Interview (with Tobias Carroll): Art and Literature In An Endless Cycle: Tomoé Hill on Songs for Olympia, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, January
Recommended books list for Wafer-Thin Books, February
Essay: The Obsessions, Exacting Clam, Issue No. 12, Spring (link to read on this site)
Review: Red Pyramid: Selected Stories, The Spectator, Issue: 30 March
Review: My Generation: Honor Levy's My First Book and the old shock of the new, The Hobbyhorse, May
Interview (with Paul Sullivan) for Songs for Olympia, 3:AM Magazine, May
Review: Venice 2024: sensing the darkness with Pierre Huyghe, Recessed.Space, June
Review: Intimate City: Jean Follain's Paris 1935 and the Parisian diorama, 3:AM Magazine, June
Review: Pontiac, Financial Times, TBA
Review: The Oceans of Cruelty, Asymptote, TBA
Review/Essay: Mavis Gallant piece, The Spectator World, TBA
Review: Eurotrash, New Humanist, TBA
2023
Essay: Choreography of Ruin, Exacting Clam, Issue No. 8, Spring
Fiction: The Water Collectors, Ligeia Magazine, Spring Issue
Essay: The Author Can't, The Author Must: Mikhail Bulgakov's Black Snow and the drama of the writer, The Hobbyhorse, May
Essay: First, a Feeling: on translation without language, Exacting Clam, Issue No. 9, Summer
Response/Remix: I Worry About You Worrying About, Overground Underground, 'Response' Edition, August
Fiction (section): CADAVRE EXQUI[S], minor literature[s], September
Interview (with Tobias Ryan): 'I wanted something like revenge. To be visible.' for Songs for Olympia, minor literature[s], September
Review: An Appointment with Oblivion: Barbara Molinard's Panics, The Hobbyhorse, October
Interview (with Ben Lindner) for Songs for Olympia, Beyond the Zero, October
Essay: Scents of Grace, Exacting Clam, Issue No. 11, Winter
2022
Fiction: Unquiet Bodies, Ligeia Magazine, Spring Issue
Review: Genesis 0, Exacting Clam, Issue No. 5, Summer
Response: The Virgin and the Flame: An Imagining of Anne Serre's The Beginners, MAP Magazine, June
Essay: Metamorphosis, Vestoj, June
Essay: The Dress and the Bench, Exacting Clam, Issue No. 6, Autumn
Essay: Skin and Smoke, Vestoj, September
2021
Fiction: Eurydice Returns to the Living, Black Telephone Magazine, Issue #4
Essay: Murmurations, Socrates on the Beach, June
Fiction: New In Town, Ligeia Magazine, Summer Issue
Essay (Pushcart Prize nomination): Scent Markings, Childhood, Exacting Clam, Issue No. 2, Autumn
Essay: Breath and Belief (Part 1 and Part 2), Covidian Æsthetics, November
Essay: -zoic (-zoic I and -zoic II), MAP Magazine, December
2020
Competition (essay): Scents of Desire, shortlisted for the Disquiet ILP Prize in nonfiction, February
Competition (essay): The Goat, finalist, Porter House Review Editor’s Prize in nonfiction, July
Essay: No Feet, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, September
Essay: The Ring, The London Magazine, September
Essay: The Goat, Porter House Review, December
2019
Essay: Are Made Of, Empty Mirror, April
Review: Death Mort Tod, Music & Literature, July
Fiction: 54 Rue de Seine, Fur-Lined Ghettos, July issue #9 (print only; link to read elsewhere on this site)
Essay: Galen’s Heart, Burning House Press, September
Essay: Erotica: A Liminal Manual, Lapsus Lima, September (site now defunct)
Fiction: Orgasm Addict (from the Love Bites anthology), The Quietus, September
Essay: Normal/Hunger (illustrated six-part collaboration with Yanina Spizzirri), minor literature[s], September-October
Visiting Lecturer, Critical Reading (MA Writing), Royal College of Art, London, October
Essay: Speak to Me of Love and I Will Speak to You of Wings, Airplane Reading, December
2018
Micro-essay: Colourforms, Visual Verse, January
Essay: The End, Lunch Review (part of Punctum Books, now defunct), February
Review: Catalina, minor literature[s], April
Essay: Presence and Absence, RIC Journal, June
Essay: Paris, Taxes, Lapsus Lima, June (site now defunct, piece now links elsewhere on this site)
Essay: Read Angry: On Good Feminism and the Bad Reader, Queen Mob’s (now defunct), July
Essay: Another Way of Seeing, 3:AM Magazine, December
2017
Review: Trysting (co-written as part of XX and XY), minor literature[s], January
Review: To Begin at the Beginning, minor literature[s], January
Review: Nightjar, The City Story, January
Review: The Wolseley, The City Story, January
Review: Against Everything: On Dishonest Times (co-written with Thom Cuell), minor literature[s], Parts 1-5 between January-February
Essay: Fortnums Easter, The City Story, March
Review: Speak Gigantular, New Orleans Review, March
Review: Henry and June, (co-written as part of XX and XY), The Amorist, April
Review: Turkish Delight, The Amorist, April
Review: Story of O, (co-written as part of XX and XY), The Amorist, May
Review: Venus in Furs (co-written as part of XX and XY), The Amorist, June
Review: HKK, The City Story, June
Review: A Cup of Rage, The Amorist, June
Review: Ulysses, (co-written as part of XX and XY), The Amorist, July
Review: Duck and Waffle, The City Story, July
Review: Perfume at Somerset House (exhibition), The Amorist, July
Review: Philosophy in the Boudoir, (co-written as part of XX and XY), The Amorist, August
Review: Madame Bovary, (co-written as part of XX and XY), The Amorist, September
Review: Les Liaisons dangereuses, (co-written as part of XX and XY), The Amorist, October
Review: Manon Lescaut, (co-written as part of XX and XY), The Amorist, November
Essay: Beauteous Box, minor literature[s], December
2016
Essay: The Desire of the Senses: Sexual Chemistry and Biology in Nausicaa, Berfrois, January
Essay: Scent and Memory: An Olfactory Life, Numéro Cinq, January
Review: I’m Very Into You: Correspondence 1995-1996 (co-written as part of XX and XY), minor literature[s], February
Review: Nicotine, New Orleans Review, February
Essay: Please Don’t Touch the Bottles, The City Story, April
Review: Chelsea Physic Garden, The City Story, April
Essay: Pen & Eliot, The City Story, May
Essay: The Electric Peacock, The City Story, May
Essay: The Beating Heart, 3:AM Magazine, May
Review: The Transmigration of Bodies, minor literature[s], May
Essay: Apple and Pear Trees, Numéro Cinq, May
Review: The Black Curve (co-written as part of XX and XY), minor literature[s], June
Essay: Haute Sucre, The City Story, May
Essay: A Place to Breathe, The City Story, May
Review: St John, The City Story, June
Review: Beastlife, minor literature[s], August
Review: A Terrace in Rome, The Quarterly Conversation (now defunct), October
Review: Donostia, The City Story, October
Review: The Jugged Hare, The City Story, October
Review: I’d Like to Thank Manchester Air Rifles, Berfrois, November
Review: The Existential Flâneuse: In the Café of Lost Youth, minor literature[s], December
Review: Balthazar, The City Story, December
Associate Editor, Dodo Ink, 2016 - 2017
2015
Essay: My Bones Are London, minor literature[s], April
Review: No Moon, minor literature[s], August
Review: F.M.R.L., minor literature[s], September
Review: Philosophical Toys, minor literature[s], September
Review: Walter Benjamin’s Archive, minor literature[s], November
Review: Grow a Pair (co-written as part of XX and XY), minor literature[s], November
Review: Pond, minor literature[s], November
Editor, minor literature[s], 2015 - 2019
The Recycling
unpublished nonsense and updated previously published pieces I feel like reposting here.
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