Published August 4, 2025! Check out my short novel Wicked Garden — part of a collaboration with Matt Hughes and Hope Hughes of Ethereal Visions Publishing.
Publications
Wicked Garden // Ethereal Visions Publishing // 2025 [short novel]
“Surfing Is a Joke” // The Surfer’s Journal (issue 32.6)
“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] [original link]
“Melt That Clock” // The Surfer’s Journal (June/July 2021, issue 30.3) [essay]
“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)
“Blindkey Point” was published in Four Way Review’s Tennessee-themed quarto in October 2019 [short story]
“The Answer Is, Probably Not” // HAD // Originally published in Hobart // 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:
James Norris Eppes has published fiction, essays, and reporting in Newsweek, XRAY, HAD, 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 was a summer staff member at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and Aiken Taylor Editorial Fellow at the Sewanee Review (2014-15).
Beyond his creative writing, he is Founder/Investment Advisor at Eppes Wealth Management.
