September Woods Garland (she/they)
Writer | Editor | Existential Feminist
September Woods Garland hails from the Pacific Northwest where she enjoys long, romantic walks through haunted houses and feeding Bigfoot peanut butter & seaweed sandwiches.
Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Berlin Literary Review, Jersey Devil Press, The Stray Branch, and elsewhere. September is currently working on a novel and short form works.
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September was a Writer-in-Residence at Hypatia in the Woods on the Olympic Peninsula, Spring 2025 and will be at Arteles Creative Center in Haukijärvi, Finland for the month of September 2025.
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Drawn to themes of personal transformation and existentialism, September explores grief, trauma, and feminism, often through the lens of working-class characters.
September also works as a freelance book editor and serves as Editor in Chief at Weird Lit Magazine.
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Featured Works
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Floatplane Fern
A novel
In Revisions
Grounded by debt, floatplane pilot Fern Waters takes on a risky gig flying a crew of sasquatch hunters to a remote island in British Columbia. What sounds like a straight-forward job quickly transforms into a journey for spiritual and literal survival amid the haunting wooded islands of the Pacific Northwest.
Seas the Day
Short story published in
The Berlin Literary Review
June 2025
"There was no sense in lingering; Desolation Sound had lost its romance. The warm glow of the maritime wonderland had proven untouchable to her now."
Secession and Other Rumors
Short Story
Currently querying
Survivors of an ongoing Second American Civil War brave the dangers of the road in search of freedom and the enigmatic Cascadia.