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      • 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, New England Review, 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

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        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

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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

        Press: 3:AM Magazine

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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

        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.)

        Review: Crucible, The Spectator World, TBA

        Review: The Oceans of Cruelty, Asymptote, Winter Issue, January

        Review: Lion, Financial Times, January

        Review: Base Notes, The Telegraph, January

        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

        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

        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

        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

        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

        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

        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

        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

        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

        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.

        Murmurations
        2025年9月1日
        I know that you know that I know. My mother still laughingly refers to this line, first uttered...
        Encre Noire (after Breton's Nadja)
        2025年4月9日
        1. It is difficult, if not impossible, to ask where, when or how such a thing starts. We are so...
        The Squirrel and the Sumi-e Box
        2025年4月9日
        It reappeared in my life carefully layered in tissue paper and bubble wrap, part of one of the...
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