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 and seaweed sandwiches.
Her fiction is forthcoming in The Stray Branch and has been published in Roi Fainéant Press, Crow & Cross Keys,The Squawk Back, and elsewhere. September is currently working on a novel and short form works.
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September will be a Writer-in-Residence at Hypatia in the Woods on the Olympic Peninsula, Spring 2025 and at Arteles 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.
Currently Reading:
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.
"Beasts of the Desert Wild"
Flash fiction published in Crow & Cross Keys
November 2024
"Rumor had it women across the southwestern territories had been morphing into nocturnal, cannibalistic creatures..."
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"Aging Punks Will Have Their Revenge on Seattle"
Short Story
Currently querying
A group of aging punks responds to the gentrification of Seattle in the only way they know how.