• Tomoé Hill

  • ABOUT

    Tomoé Hill's writing has appeared in places such as Vestoj, minor literature[s], Exacting Clam, Ligeia Magazine, MAP Magazine, Socrates on the Beach, The Quietus, The London 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. Songs for Olympia, a response to The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat by Michel Leiris, is published by Sagging Meniscus Press.

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  • BOOKS & ANTHOLOGIES

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    Songs for Olympia (Sagging Meniscus Press, October 2023)

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

    Essay: Inheritance is Silence

    Press: TLS

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

    Autofiction: Orgasm Addict

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    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

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

    Essay: Pilgrimage

  • 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, 3:AM Magazine, TBA

    Response: Your Scent is Where I Want You to Take Me, New England Review, Chungking Express 30: Special Feature, 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: 'I wanted something like revenge. To be visible.' (with Tobias Ryan) 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

    Interview (with Adam Moody) for Songs for Olympia, Stat-O-Rec, TBA

     

    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, Lapsus Lima, May

    Review: Death Mort Tod, Music & Literature, July

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

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

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

    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

    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

    new & unpublished writing and updated previously published pieces I feel like reposting here.

    Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali (tr. Maureen Freely and Alexander Dawe)
    December 1, 2023
    If the depths of our emotions were visible to the naked eye, how we treat people in our daily...
    Turkish Delight by Jan Wolkers (tr. Sam Garrett)
    December 1, 2023
    Stories that start with loss often begin to bloom only when we understand what was found—and so...
    Mouth and Eye
    September 23, 2023
    I. Mouth <Look at yourself, they have names for faces like that.> cavity fills with a hiss of...
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  • Social Media / Contact

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Twitter: @CuriosoTheGreat

    Bluesky: @curiosothegreat.bsky.social

    Email: curiosothegreat@gmail.com

     

    Note: I don't do Zoom, live events, or podcasts - my writing is more articulate than I am.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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