Literature & Writing
874 sites
https://harakanvarpu.neocities.org/
Twig's colorful Neocities site is a creative playground built around original characters and stories, with dedicated pages for OCs, a music player, a gallery, and a journal. The Finnish creator embraces the personal web ethos fully, prioritizing character-building content and self-expression over professional polish.
https://hosentaschenblog.org/
Hosentaschenblog is a minimalist German-language personal blog running since 2021, built without PHP, JavaScript, or WordPress, focusing on everyday reflections, personal experiences, and slice-of-life musings. Posts cover topics ranging from household observations and sleep troubles to heavier subjects like war and personal trauma, all presented in a deliberately stripped-down, text-only style.
https://miskatonic.org/
William Denton's Miskatonic University Press is a richly eclectic personal site blending literary interests, art commentary, and cultural projects including the STAPLR music reference library and Theatre Science. The site reflects decades of intellectual curiosity, featuring quotes from artists like Matisse and Delacroix, notes on Canadian hosting, and connections to a wide range of humanistic pursuits.
https://kangminsuk.com/
Minsuk Kang writes essays, fiction, poetry, and personal reflections spanning Korean culture, life in America, books, and the writing life itself. The archive spans several years of candid, wide-ranging pieces that blend cultural criticism with intimate personal storytelling.
https://theprawn.com/
A minimalist personal page built around lyrical, poetic text meditating on smallness, the moon, and eternity. The sparse structure and evocative language give it the feel of an intimate prose poem rather than a traditional website.
https://fray.com/
Fray.com is one of the web's earliest and most celebrated venues for personal storytelling, where real people share true first-person narratives in a richly designed format. A landmark of early web culture, it pioneered the art of combining visual design with long-form personal essays and reader-contributed stories.
https://greencardamom.github.io/BooksAndWriters/lcarroll.htm
An archived page from Petri Liukkonen's 'Books and Writers' calendar, offering a detailed biographical entry on Lewis Carroll, the mathematician and author behind Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Visitors will find a thorough overview of Carroll's life, literary works, and legacy, along with an alphabetical index linking to hundreds of other author profiles.
http://infinityplus.co.uk/
Infinity Plus is a long-running genre fiction publisher and showcase featuring science fiction, fantasy, horror, and crime works from authors including Stephen Baxter, Robert Holdstock, and Lisa Tuttle. The site offers ebooks and print titles alongside an archived online fiction showcase boasting over 2.1 million words of stories, 1000 book reviews, and 100 interviews.
https://tilde.town/~vilmibm
The homepage of vilmibm, a creative individual whose tilde.town presence links out to a blog, portfolio, music, poetry, and more. The dramatic, all-caps retro-web aesthetic sets the tone for what appears to be a rich collection of personal creative work across multiple disciplines.
http://winnowing.com/
Winnowing.com is a personal literary site featuring original writing, poetry, and reflective essays with a quiet, contemplative tone. The site has an old-web aesthetic and offers a curated collection of the creator's written work for visitors who enjoy thoughtful, introspective prose.