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Norris Eppes

As seen in: Newsweek, The Bitter Southerner, The Daily Beacon, Beach Grit, The Surfer's Journal
Working in 3D metrology/LiDAR. Writing fiction/essays (in @newsweek @surfersjournal @bittersouth @havehadhavehad @xraylitmag & elsewhere).

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Norris Eppes’s Biography

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Norris Eppes has published stories, essays, and reporting in X-R-A-Y, Hobart, Newsweek, The Surfer's Journal, The Bitter Southerner, The James Dickey Review, the UT Daily Beacon, and elsewhere.

He holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Tennessee and a B.A. in English with Honors from Sewanee: The University of the South.

He works on summer staff at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. In the past, he's been a reader for Grist: A Journal of the Literary Arts, was the 2014-15 Ai…

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Bird Brains

Bird Brains

If aviary flight patterns mirror surf styles, is surfing just an act of nature?

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Language: "Surfing" revealed as hottest new corporate buzz-word!

Language: "Surfing" revealed as hottest new corporate buzz-word!

Doesn't it feel, I don't know...intrusive... to see the word "surf" used in advertising?

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Blindkey Point

Blindkey Point

What's it like to work in a writing center for suicide notes? Short story in the Four Way Review.

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Melt That Clock

Melt That Clock

Surfing rewires your mind to conceptualize time close to how your ancestors thought about their days. And you…

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Do We Call It Luck or What?

Do We Call It Luck or What?

We arrive at Siesta Cove RV park to put the boat in, still tasting honey mustard sauce and onions from Subway…

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The Rise of Rural Noir: Southern Crime Fiction

The Rise of Rural Noir: Southern Crime Fiction

When we hear the word “noir,” our minds flash to black-and-white movies driven by hard-boiled, big-city detec…

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Articles

How Surfing Helps Us Return to Episodic Time

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By Norris Eppes, Norris Eppes Essay
| The Surfer's Journal Verified
The flat spell has been broken—thankfully, mercifully. And over a weekend, nonetheless. How rare is it that good surf lines up with the time to actually enjoy it? But today is Saturday, and my time’s my own. It’s small, but it’s clean, and I’ll take anything in the Florida summertime doldrums. Anything to snap my flat-spell-induced case of the grays.
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Question: Does the religiosity of the WSL tour reflect the beliefs of average surfers?

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By Norris Eppes
| Beach Grit Verified
Is there a vengeful, box-ticking middle manager in the sky with a cosmic wire on you? In his Margaret River comp write-up, Longtom drew attention to the outspoken religiosity of some of the surfers on tour. “There really is a God and Brazilian pro surfers are her Chosen People,” he wrote. Professional athletes thanking the divine in their victorious interviews is nothing new. But, does the religiosity on tour reflect the beliefs of average surfers?
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Real life: man disturbed by “surfer” co-worker, “Turning the memory of a good surf into virtual-office small-talk zaps it of its ineffable joy”

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By Norris Eppes
| Beach Grit Verified
Only a surfer knows the feeling… Tropical Storm Isaias rolled past my stretch of the Florida coast Sunday, promising to leave offshore winds and clean surf on Monday. Going to sleep the night before, my brain’s neural pathways fired excitedly. Yes it would be a Monday, and yes I had to finish up and launch an ad campaign for work that was due Tuesday morning, but I was — and I assume other formerly office-trapped surfers will understand my joy — I was working from home.
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Awards

Aiken Taylor Postgraduate Fellowship

2014 - Editorial Internship

Editorial intern at the Sewanee Review (2014-2015).

Tennessee Williams Prize for Creative Writing

2014 - Fiction Writing

Awarded by Sewanee: the University of the South.