
Tomoé Hill
ABOUT
Tomoé Hill is a US-born, London-based editor and writer whose writing has appeared in places such as Financial Times, The Telegraph, The Spectator, The Spectator World, 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.)
2025
Review: The Oceans of Cruelty, Asymptote, Winter Issue, January
Review: Lion, Financial Times, January
Review: Base Notes, The Telegraph, January
Review: Eurotrash, New Humanist, TBA
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/Essay: The life and legacy of Mavis Gallant, an American in Paris, The Spectator World, December issue
Review: Pontiac, Financial Times, 05 December
Response: Your scent is where I want you to take me, 'Chungking Express at 30: Rewatching Wong Kar Wai', New England Review, Issue 45.4
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
Essay: Scent Markings, June, Lapsus Lima (site now defunct, link to read elsewhere on this site)
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.
January 2, 2025Scent Marking: Tsarina (Intensivo) I concentrate on the bottles within the mosaic-tiled...April 8, 2024‘You take a picture then move on’, the man says curtly in a German accent. I am paraphrasing from...If the depths of our emotions were visible to the naked eye, how we treat people in our daily...More PostsSocial Media / Contact
Email (Commissions/professional queries only. Please note I do not review on author or publisher request): tomoekhill@gmail.com
Twitter / X: @CuriosoTheGreat (mostly deactivated unless posting new work)
Bluesky: @curiosothegreat.bsky.social
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