Literature & Writing
874 sites
https://tylerknowsnothing.com/
Tyler's sprawling personal blog covers fiction writing, political commentary, media reviews, and technology across nearly a decade of archives. The site features original longform fiction, microposts on current events, a reading tracker, and a jukebox, making it a genuinely eclectic creative outlet with real depth.
https://colemanm.org/
Coleman McCormick's personal blog and newsletter hub features curated links, short essays, and reflections on writing, design, technology, and ideas. The site archives years of posts alongside his newsletter 'Res Extensa,' making it a thoughtful commonplace book for intellectually curious readers.
https://kersplat.neocities.org/
Carly's personal Neocities space, based in the UK, featuring a diary, an about page, and an outgoing links section. The site is a minimalist personal homepage in the classic old-web style, still in early stages with very little content visible.
https://glbck.com/
glbck.com is a blog by a writer publishing short, poetic micro-fiction pieces called 'tinytales', each a compact slice of everyday urban life, grief, and quiet observation set often in São Paulo. The writing is intimate and literary, capturing fleeting human moments in just a few sentences with surprising emotional depth.
https://clowdywings.neocities.org/
Clowdywings is a charming Neocities personal site featuring snippets of original writing, pixel art and blinkie collections, shrines for favorite things, and a personal diary. The site is actively maintained by a self-described HTML beginner who has built out multiple sections including movie reviews, a zine page, and a curated links collection.
https://gwern.net/
Gwern Branwen's sprawling intellectual website covers AI scaling, psychology, statistics, self-experimentation, and much more through deeply researched long-form essays. A genuine labor of love spanning hundreds of pages, it is widely regarded as one of the most ambitious and original personal essay sites on the web.
https://kwhitefoot.neocities.org/
Kwhitefoot's personal site centers around a growing book catalogue, with some titles available for sale or free. The site also features scanned vintage magazines including a 1976 Bristol University Rag Mag and the Liverpool Software Gazette from 1980, making it a small but intriguing archive of retro print media.
https://neustadt.fr/
Parimal Satyal's personal website blends thoughtful essays on the open web, languages, aviation, and technology with his retro synthwave music project Snow Circuit. Standout pieces like 'Rediscovering the Small Web' and 'Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web' have gained wide recognition, making this a genuinely compelling destination for fans of the indie and small web movement.
https://detective-rascal.neocities.org/
Detective Rascal is a personal site built by a writer who maintains a fic archive with 45 entries, a book review section, and a character page, all hand-coded from scratch. The fic archive notably includes Arcane fanfictions, making it a cozy corner for readers and writers who enjoy fan-created stories and literary commentary.
https://ajhw.co.uk/books/index4.html
The Book Library is an extensive digital collection of hundreds of public domain books from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, all readable as webpages with helpful Wikipedia links for context on authors and subjects. Titles range from Ambrose Bierce's 'The Devil's Dictionary' and WWI regimental histories to art criticism and early automotive writing, making it a rich archive for lovers of antique texts.