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 has been published in The Sprawl Mag, Black Sheep Magazine, Idle Ink, Hello Horror, and elsewhere.
September is currently revising The Madrona Cove Encounter, a novel-length work of literary survival fiction set in Desolation Sound, BC, Canada, 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, serves on the Board of Governors for the Editorial Freelancers Association, and serves as Editor-in-Chief at Weird Lit Magazine.
Visit herrineditorial.com for information about her editing services.
Featured Works
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The Madrona Cove Encounter
Wilderness Survival Horror Novel
Currently in revision
A floatplane pilot transports a crew of sasquatch hunters to a remote island in British Columbia. What sounded like a straight-forward gig quickly transforms into a journey for spiritual and literal survival among the wooded islands of BC’s Desolation Sound.
"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.