Literature & Writing
874 sites
https://lowryside.neocities.org/personal
Lowryside (Caroline Paige Stanton) maintains this charming personal site featuring a one-person book club with deeply reflective essays on Italo Calvino's 'Six Memos for the New Millennium,' alongside links to videos, a newsletter, and creative projects. The book club writings stand out as genuinely thoughtful literary criticism blended with personal memoir, making this a rare find among personal homepages.
http://digitalbookindex.com/_search/search010literatureindian.asp
Digital Book Index curates a large collection of freely available Indian literature in multiple formats including PDF, Kindle, EPub, and HTML, spanning classic texts, folktales, and historical journals. Maintained by Thomas R. Franklin, this section alone lists dozens of works ranging from 19th-century Anglo-India periodicals to traditional folktales, making it a valuable resource for readers seeking free digital editions of South Asian literary works.
https://nuedge.ichi.city/
Nu's personal corner of the web is a cozy, anonymous journal space focused on logging attempts at positivity and embracing the quiet freedom of old-school internet culture. The site also features video content adapted for the Sony PSP, and draws inspiration from Web 1.0 aesthetics and the HTML Journal specification.
https://bix.blog/
Bix writes a candid, wide-ranging personal blog from St. Johns, Oregon, covering disability, autism, daily life, pop culture, and the indie web with a distinctly thoughtful voice. The site includes a blog restoration project collecting years of past writing, a blogroll, and reflections on topics ranging from Firefly fandom politics to autistic burnout and storytelling craft.
https://nefaerien.net/
Nefaerien.NET is the creative home of Vixen Phillips, also known as lilli, a self-described queer techno-fantasist who crafts dark lyrical fiction, music, and visual art. The site is an atmospheric, handcoded experience with poetically named sections like "the dreaming sea" and "feathers from ruins," inviting visitors into a world of dreamlike narrative fragments.
https://middle-earth.org/silmarillion
Mythopoeia is the official TFL-approved fanlisting for J.R.R. Tolkien's posthumously published masterwork, The Silmarillion, celebrating the deep mythological history of Arda. Created by Kirryn and featuring artwork by Ted Nasmith, it invites fans of Tolkien's most epic and tragic work to add their names to its growing membership list.
https://neosynth.net/
Neosynth, run by a creator called Neon, is a cyberpunk fiction and storytelling site subtitled 'Tales from the Digital Frontier,' featuring original short stories and posts with a distinct retro-terminal aesthetic. The site blends science fiction prose with poetry and a passion for digital independence, built using a custom Bash-powered static site generator called Arise.
https://aphub.neocities.org/
AP's hub is a charming personal homepage featuring a curated collection of gay poetry, music favorites, personal photography, and an eclectic reading list spanning feminist theory, queer literature, and classic novels. The site radiates a warm, artsy personality with sections devoted to beloved musicians, films, and visual artists like Monet and Klimt.
https://unit00.neocities.org/
Unit00 is the personal creative hub of Tati, a multidisciplinary creator who uses the site to house an ambitious collection of worldbuilding projects alongside personal interests in music, visual art, and writing. The worldbuilding section is the self-described "real meat" of the site, with multiple distinct areas that each carry their own distinct visual style.
https://sekh-net.nekoweb.org/
Sekh-net is a creative worldbuilding project presenting a fictional setting called Sekharu as if it were real, complete with weather reports, upcoming events, community forums, and lore about its inhabitants. The site mimics the format of a vintage community news portal for an invented culture, making it a fascinating piece of interactive speculative fiction.