September Woods Garland
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 and seaweed sandwiches.
Her fiction is forthcoming in Cross & Crow Keys and has been published in The Sprawl Mag, Black Sheep Magazine, Idle Ink, Hello Horror, and elsewhere.
September is currently working on Grief Spree, a novel-length work of literary psychological fiction, as well as various short form works.
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.
Visit herrineditorial.com for information about her editing services.
Featured Works
Grief Spree
Literary Psychological Crime Fic
Currently drafting
After losing their teenage son in a tragic accident, Autumn and Quinn descend on a grief-fueled crime spree along the West Coast's Hwy 101. Oscillating between a sense of invincibility and existential dread, their bond waxes and wanes under the pressures of grief and moral ambiguity.
"What Kind of Name is Hitchcock Blonde"
Flash fiction published in The Sprawl Mag, February 2024
" . . . In this volume, we have collected pieces that explore the constant work of placemaking and the courage it takes to find a voice . . . In September Woods Garland’s short fiction, What Kind of Name is Hitchcock Blonde, music becomes an expression of revenge against the patriarchy. . ."
"Seas the Moment"
Short Story (Nautical Lit Fic)
Currently in revision
A couple grapples with the constraints of marriage while navigating The Georgia Strait in a storm.