September Woods Garland
September Woods Garland is a writer, editor, and publisher from the Pacific Northwest.
Her work has been supported by Arteles Creative Center (Finland) and Hypatia in the Woods (USA). September’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Neon & Smoke, Door is A Jar, The Berlin Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her story "Tuulikki Bakes A Cake" was selected for the 2025 DIAJ Award in Fiction.
September's literary and cross-genre works explore themes of personal revolution, grief, and absurdism through an existential feminist lens. Drawing from lived experience in countercultural movements—legal cannabis, veganism, polyamory, punkdom—September uses fiction to convey life outside mainstream society. Her stories often feature working-class characters, disobedient women, and cannibals.
September is the founder, publisher, and editor in chief at Weird Lit Magazine, a nonprofit digital literary magazine and platform for the weird and boundless. She enjoys long, romantic walks through haunted houses and feeding Bigfoot peanut butter & seaweed sandwiches.
Currently Reading:
Bear by Julia Phillips
Featured Works
Another Empty Kitchen
Flash Fiction
forthcoming in Neon & Smoke
"When she heard Ol’ Buck went down east of Prideaux Haven, Frances poured out the ceremonial splash of whiskey in his honor and set to filling his spot in the annual Kistler Cup seaplane race."
Tuulikki Bakes A Cake
Short story published in
Door Is A Jar, December 2025
WINNER of the 2025 DIAJ Award for Fiction
"We live near the front. The frozen lake is all that stands between us and the enemy's encroaching line. I'm grateful to eat from its waters in these times of scarcity."
Kelp Thief (or The Nasty Habit of Living)
Short Story published in
SORTES
September 2025
"At high tide mermaids swim into my cove and raid the kelp forest. The freaks are too smart for my traps but too rare to shoot. I go to the department of fish and wildlife, ask for help. The lady says tough titty and leaves for a smoke."