News & Current Projects
Read the short story “Do We Call It Luck or What?” in HASH.
Read an essays about ornithology or one about time in The Surfer’s Journal — and this short story in the Four Way Review.
Stand-up comedy: Jokes! If you’re in the area, come laugh at me — I’ll post when there’s an upcoming set.
I’ve got an essay coming out soon in The Surfer’s Journal and have been working with Ethereal Visions Publishing on a short story to accompany a forthcoming illustrated card deck.
Publications
“If A Wave Breaks in the Woods” // The Surfer’s Journal (issue 31.3)
“Do We Call It Luck or What?” // HASH (Sept. 18, 2021) [flash fiction]
“Melt That Clock” // The Surfer’s Journal (June/July 2021, issue 30.3) [essay]
“What do surfers believe?” // BeachGrit (May 2021)
“Pain-Points, Ineffable” // BeachGrit (August 2020)
“Bird Brains” // The Surfer’s Journal (29.2) [essay]
“Surfing Revealed As Hottest New Corporate Buzzword!” // BeachGrit (March 2020)
“Cheater” // X-R-A-Y (Feb 15, 2020) [flash fiction]
“Blindkey Point” was published in Four Way Review’s Tennessee-themed quarto in October 2019 [short story]
“The Answer Is, Probably Not” was published in Hobart on February 5, 2019 [flash fiction]
“The Rise of Rural Noir: Southern Crime Fiction” // Bitter Southerner [essay]
“Unfamiliar Ground” // The Surfer’s Journal (28.3)
An Interview with Author Manuel Gonzales // University of Tennessee Writers in the Library (2017)
“Pensky, soccer team point out similarities in college, professional soccer” // UT Daily Beacon, Apr 17, 2017
“Vintage baseball league plays by oldschool rules” // UT Daily Beacon, Jun 17, 2016
“Emmett Machinists best Knoxville Holstons in hot contest” // UT Daily Beacon, Jun 19, 2016
“Downhill track offers bikers wild ride” // UT Daily Beacon, Jul 20, 2016
“Regal, yet Rowdy — Vols soccer support group continues growing” // UT Daily Beacon, Sep 13, 2016
“Doing It” // The James Dickey Review (Fall 2015; print edition) [autofiction]
“In Charleston, Speaking About the Shooting and ‘That Flag’” // Newsweek (June 18, 2015)
“Greeks Differ on the Outcome of the Greek Vote, But Not the Anxiety” // Newsweek (July 6, 2015)
“Joaquin Flooding Hits South Carolina's Newer Housing Developments and Midlands Hardest” // Newsweek (October 7, 2015)
“One Shot” was published in Saturday Night Reader on July 18, 2014 [flash fiction; no longer available online].
“Bomb Plant” was published in the Mountain Goat issue 8 (2013) [print edition; short story]
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[Check out my portfolio on MuckRack for additional stories, like more of my sportswriting for the UT Daily Beacon.]
Writing Bio:
Norris Eppes has published fiction, essays, and reporting in Newsweek, X-R-A-Y, Hobart, the Four Way Review, HASH, The Surfer’s Journal, BeachGrit, the Bitter Southerner, the UT Daily Beacon, and elsewhere.
He holds an M.F.A. from the University of Tennessee and a B.A. (with Honors) from Sewanee, where he read English literature and received the Tennessee Williams Prize for Creative Writing upon graduation. He’s a summer staff member at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and was the Aiken Taylor Editorial Fellow at the Sewanee Review (2014-15).
He currently works in the manufacturing industry (specifically LIDAR/3D metrology). Hobbies, when not enjoying time with his wife and daughter, include chess, pickup soccer, sailing, surfing, ornithology, playing the drums, and stand-up comedy.
Technical Copywriting
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