• Tomoé Hill

  • ABOUT

    Tomoé Hill's writing has appeared in such publications as Vestoj.com, MAP Magazine, Exacting Clam, Socrates on the Beach, Lapsus Lima, The London Magazine, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, The Quietus, 3:AM Magazine, Music & Literature, and Numéro Cinq, as well as various anthologies. She co-wrote a monthly feature as part of the duo XX and XY, reviewing erotic classic literature for Rowan Pelling's The Amorist during its time as a print magazine. She holds a degree in philosophy from King’s College London. Songs for Olympia, a response to The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat by Michel Leiris will be published by Sagging Meniscus Press in 2023.

  • BOOKS & ANTHOLOGIES

    Songs for Olympia (Sagging Meniscus Press, forthcoming 2023)

    Trauma: Essays on Art and Mental Health (Dodo Ink, 2021), Editors: Sam Mills and Thom Cuell

    Essay: Inheritance is Silence

    Love Bites: Fiction Inspired by Pete Shelley and Buzzcocks (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2019), Editors: Andrew Gallix, C.D. Rose, Tomoé Hill

    Autofiction: Orgasm Addict

    Azimuth: The Ecology of an Ear (Sonic Art Research Unit at Oxford Brookes University, 2019), Editor: Patrick Farmer

    Essay: Oval Window

    Review: The Wire, Issue 427

    We'll Never Have Paris (Repeater Books, 2019), Editor: Andrew Gallix

    Essay: Pilgrimage

  • OTHER WRITING, COMPETITIONS, ETC.

    ('XX and XY' pieces from Minor Literature[s] as well as those featured in The Amorist are now in the Unpublishable section; other selected work will also be relocated there.)

    2023

     

    Essay: The Choreography of Ruin, Exacting Clam, TBA

     

    2022

     

    Fiction: Unquiet Bodies, Ligeia Magazine, Spring 2022

     

    Review: Genesis 0 by Isabelle Nicou (tr. Katie Shireen Assef), Exacting Clam, Issue No. 5, Summer 2022

     

    Response: The Virgin and the Flame: an imagining of Anne Serre's The Beginners (tr. Mark Hutchinson), MAP Magazine, June 2022

     

    Essay: Metamorphosis, Vestoj, June 2022

     

    Essay: The Dress and the Bench, Exacting Clam, Issue No. 6, Autumn 2022

     

    Essay: Skin and Smoke, Vestoj, September 2022

     

    2021

     

    Fiction: Eurydice Returns to the Living, Black Telephone Magazine, Issue #4, 2021

     

    Essay: Murmurations, Socrates on the Beach, June 2021

     

    Fiction: New In Town, Ligeia Magazine, Summer 2021

     

    Essay (Pushcart Prize nomination): Scent Markings, Childhood, Exacting Clam, Issue No. 2, Autumn 2021

     

    Essay: Breath and Belief (Part 1 and Part 2), Covidian Æsthetics, November 2021

     

    Essay: -zoic (-zoic I and -zoic II), MAP Magazine, December 2021

     

    2020

     

    Competition (essay): Scents of Desire, shortlisted for the Disquiet ILP Prize in nonfiction, February 2020

    Competition (essay): The Goat, finalist, Porter House Review Editor’s Prize in nonfiction (judge: Leslie Jamison), July 2020

     

    Essay: No Feet, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, September 2020

    Essay: The Ring, The London Magazine, September 2020

     

    Essay: The Goat, Porter House Review, December 2020

    2019

     

    Essay: Are Made Of, Empty Mirror, April 2019

    Essay: Scent Markings, Lapsus Lima, May 2019

    Review: Death Mort Tod, Music & Literature, July 2019

    Fiction: 54 Rue de Seine, Fur-Lined Ghettos, July issue #9 2019

    Essay: Galen’s Heart, Burning House Press, September 2019

    Essay: Erotica: A Liminal Manual, Lapsus Lima, September 2019

    Fiction excerpt: Orgasm Addict (from the Love Bites anthology), The Quietus, September 2019

    Essay: Normal/Hunger (illustrated six-part collaboration with Yanina Spizzirri), Minor Literature[s], September-October 2019

    Visiting lecturer, Critical Reading (MA Writing) at the Royal College of Art, London, October 2019

    Essay: Speak to Me of Love and I Will Speak to You of Wings, Airplane Reading, December 2019

    2018

     

    Micro-essay: Colourforms, Visual Verse, January 2018

    Essay: The End, Lunch Review (part of Punctum Books, now defunct), February 2018

    Review: Catalina, Minor Literature[s], April 2018

    Essay: Presence and Absence, RIC Journal, June 2018

    Essay: Paris, Taxes, Lapsus Lima, June 2018

    Essay: Read Angry: On Good Feminism and the Bad Reader, Queen Mob’s (now defunct), July 2018

    Essay: Another Way of Seeing, 3:AM Magazine, December 2018

    2017

     

    Review: Trysting (co-written as part of XX and XY), Minor Literature[s], January 2017

    Review: To Begin at the Beginning, Minor Literature[s], January 2017

    Review: Nightjar, The City Story, January 2017

    Review: The Wolseley, The City Story, January 2017

    Review: Against Everything: On Dishonest Times (co-written with Thom Cuell), Minor Literature[s], Parts 1-5 between January-February 2017

    Essay: Fortnums Easter, The City Story, March 2017

    Review: Speak Gigantular, New Orleans Review, March 2017

    Review: Henry and June, (co-written as part of XX and XY), The Amorist, April 2017

    Review: Turkish Delight, The Amorist, April 2017

    Review: Story of O, (co-written as part of XX and XY), The Amorist, May 2017

    Review: Venus in Furs (co-written as part of XX and XY), The Amorist, June 2017

    Review: HKK, The City Story, June 2017

    Review: A Cup of Rage, The Amorist, June 2017

    Review: Ulysses, (co-written as part of XX and XY), The Amorist, July 2017

    Review: Duck and Waffle, The City Story, July 2017

    Review: Perfume at Somerset House (exhibition), The Amorist, July 2017

    Review: Philosophy in the Boudoir, (co-written as part of XX and XY), The Amorist, August 2017

    Review: Madame Bovary, (co-written as part of XX and XY), The Amorist, September 2017

    Review: Les Liaisons dangereuses, (co-written as part of XX and XY), The Amorist, October 2017

    Review: Manon Lescaut, (co-written as part of XX and XY), The Amorist, November 2017

    Essay: Beauteous Box, Minor Literature[s], December 2017

    2016

     

    Essay: The Desire of the Senses: Sexual Chemistry and Biology in Nausicaa, Berfrois, January 2016

    Essay: Scent and Memory: An Olfactory Life, Numéro Cinq, January 2016

    Review: I’m Very Into You: Correspondence 1995-1996 (co-written as part of XX and XY), Minor Literature[s], February 2016

    Review: Nicotine, New Orleans Review, February 2016

    Essay: Please Don’t Touch the Bottles, The City Story, April 2016

    Review: Chelsea Physic Garden, The City Story, April 2016

    Essay: Pen & Eliot, The City Story, May 2016

    Essay: The Electric Peacock, The City Story, May 2016

    Essay: The Beating Heart, 3:AM Magazine, May 2016

    Review: The Transmigration of Bodies, Minor Literature[s], May 2016

    Essay: Apple and Pear Trees, Numéro Cinq, May 2016

    Review: The Black Curve (co-written as part of XX and XY), Minor Literature[s], June 2016

    Essay: Haute Sucre, The City Story, May 2016

    Essay: A Place to Breathe, The City Story, May 2016

    Review: St John, The City Story, June 2016

    Review: Beastlife, Minor Literature[s], August 2016

    Review: A Terrace in Rome, The Quarterly Conversation (now defunct), October 2016

    Review: Donostia, The City Story, October 2016

    Review: The Jugged Hare, The City Story, October 2016

    Review: I’d Like to Thank Manchester Air Rifles, Berfrois, November 2016

    Review: The Existential Flâneuse: In the Café of Lost Youth, Minor Literature[s], December 2016

    Review: Balthazar, The City Story, December 2016

     

    Associate Editor, Dodo Ink, 2016 - 2017

    2015

     

    Essay: My Bones Are London, Minor Literature[s], April 2015

    Review: No Moon, Minor Literature[s], August 2015

    Review: F.M.R.L., Minor Literature[s], September 2015

    Review: Philosophical Toys, Minor Literature[s], September 2015

    Review: Walter Benjamin’s Archive, Minor Literature[s], November 2015

    Review: Grow a Pair (co-written as part of XX and XY), Minor Literature[s], November 2015

    Review: Pond, Minor Literature[s], November 2015

     

    Editor, Minor Literature[s], 2015 - 2019

  • Unpublishable

    writings of no fixed abode: work no longer available on the original published sites/in print, or just slightly updated pieces I feel like reposting here.

    The Desire of the Senses: Sexual Chemistry and Biology in Nausicaa
    December 15, 2022
    Wait. Hm. Hm. Yes. That’s her perfume. Why she waved her hand. I leave you this to think of me...
    Respirare
    October 30, 2022
    A sign, to an unbeliever, is coincidence; one in a string of occurrences to take up or leave to...
    Paris, Taxes
    October 30, 2022
    Once in Saint-Germain I ate in a restaurant frequented mainly by students—an unassuming bistro...
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    Note: I don't do Zoom at all or live events/audio anymore due to terrible social anxiety. My writing is much more articulate than I am.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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