Literature & Writing
874 sites
https://jaredwhite.com/
Jared White is an award-winning essayist, photographer, and podcaster who has been publishing on the open web since 1996, covering topics from indie creativity and mindfulness to Portland life and ethical tech. His site serves as a hub for long-form essays, photography, podcasts about creative automation, and synth electronica, all rooted in an indie-web ethos.
https://emoe.neocities.org/
Emoe's personal webspace is a digital brain-dump and archive featuring a journal, dream log, reading log, and blog all rolled into one cozy corner of the web. The site is currently under construction but has a warm, personal tone and an update noting the creator's survival of cancer, making it a genuine slice-of-life online presence.
https://amongthestones.com/
Jimmy Baum, a self-exiled Californian now rooted in rural Galicia, shares field notes and reflections on learning, language, and life in northwest Spain. The site blends personal essays, photos, and short notes into a thoughtful philomath's journal with a distinctive voice and sense of place.
https://lovemocca.bearblog.dev/
Mocca's personal blog is a candid, low-pressure space for random venting and raw thoughts while working through thesis stress and finding her writing voice again. Short and honest, it captures the scattered inner life of someone rebuilding their ability to express themselves one imperfect post at a time.
https://brainnoises.neocities.org/
Tom, a 22-year-old computer science student, uses Brainnoises as a personal creative hub to share blog posts, original art, stories, and movie thoughts under the charming premise that his brain is simply too noisy. The site has a warm retro-web aesthetic with webrings, a guestbook, and a cozy mix of life updates and personal projects.
https://heroicfantasyquarterly.com/
Heroic Fantasy Quarterly is a long-running online literary magazine dedicated to sword-and-sorcery fiction and poetry in the tradition of pulp classics, with over 67 archived issues of original prose and verse. Visitors will find a rich trove of heroic fantasy short stories, audio readings, comics, and featured articles spanning more than a decade of publication.
https://bartz.works/
Joshua Bartz's personal site blends short articles, notes, and reading lists into a thoughtful record of his intellectual life, with sections for a digital garden, library, and seasonal music playlists. The mix of book recommendations, personal essays, and cassette culture curiosity makes it a warm and eclectic corner of the web.
http://cookhimes.us/dennis.htm
Dennis Paul Himes, also known as Pablo and Caesariatus, shares decades of prose fiction, essays, poetry, and creative writing alongside trail logs from end-to-end hikes of the Long Trail, Cohos Trail, and Foothills Trail. The site is a rich personal archive spanning topics from chess and game rules to gladiology and VRML, with links, photos, and updates stretching back to the mid-1990s.
https://www.meet-matt-browne.com/
The official author site for Matt Browne, a hard science fiction writer whose work explores topics like embryo space colonization, transhumanism, the Drake equation, and extinction-level events. Visitors can learn about his novels, including 'The Perennial Project,' which blends speculative science with big-picture questions about humanity's future.
https://fableleaf.org/
Fableleaf.org is a personal collective by Amber combining a love of writing, autumn aesthetics, and storytelling, wrapped in poetic prose and a dreamy woodland atmosphere. Visitors can explore linked sites, a guestbook, and cliques maintained under this cozy creative umbrella.