Literature & Writing
874 sites
https://clmp.org/readers/directory-of-publishers
CLMP (Community of Literary Magazines and Presses) hosts a searchable directory of independent literary publishers, allowing visitors to find presses and magazines by name, location, type, genre, and category. It serves as a vital hub for the independent publishing world, connecting readers, booksellers, librarians, and writers with small press and literary magazine publishers across the country.
https://humantooth.neocities.org/home
Humantooth's 'postnormal cyberpunkjournal' is a thoughtful personal blog featuring reflective long-form writing about everyday life, aging, grief, and contentment alongside curated link dumps of internet oddities. The site mixes introspective journaling with a love of stationery, journaling culture, and quirky web finds, giving it a distinctly analog-meets-digital old-web charm.
https://bethgoder.com/
Beth Goder is a science fiction and fantasy author whose publication credits span prestigious venues including Analog, Clarkesworld, Escape Pod, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Her site serves as a comprehensive bibliography of her short fiction and novellas, spanning from 2015 through forthcoming 2026 releases, with many stories reprinted in year's best anthologies.
http://tilde.club/~droob/index.html
Droob's tilde.club page is a quirky, essayistic personal site built around a curated reading list and brief reflections on books, articles, and everyday observations. The writing has a warm, offbeat voice, touching on titles like Seamus Heaney's Beowulf and A Pattern Language alongside musings on TV show speedups and five-year diaries.
https://eblockman.ink/
EB Lockman's personal author site offers a simple, clean homepage linking to an About page and a Publications section, suggesting a writer showcasing their work. The minimal structure points to a professional or semi-professional author using this space to highlight their written output.
http://tilde.club/~admoman
A minimalist tilde.club blog by a writer who muses on nostalgia, web reading conventions, and the quirks of chronological content presentation. The posts are thoughtful and essayistic, touching on philosophy of technology and the oddities of how we consume information online.
http://tilde.club/~schussat/slowblog-sat-20141108.html
A charming slice-of-life post by Alan Schussat on tilde.club, documenting a single Saturday in 2014 through timestamped notes collected in the Drafts app and later annotated for publication. The experiment blends personal journaling with a DIY workflow using Python and JSON to export and format the entries, making it a unique artifact of early indie web culture.
https://kissing.computer/
Agnes the Alien's creative corner of the web, packed with fandom thoughts, fan fiction tracking, original characters, poetry, and a shrine dedicated to The Negative Spirit from Doom Patrol. The site blends personal expression with ficto and writing projects, making it a lively hub for a self-described freakdyke alien's creative and fannish life.
https://readtheprintedword.org/
Read the Printed Word is a pledge campaign and button resource for people who champion physical books and printed text in the digital age. Visitors can grab one of several embeddable web buttons to display on their own sites, declaring their commitment to reading on paper.
https://oceanmew.com/
OceanMew.com is the whimsical personal home of an internet denizen known as Ocean, featuring a blog, photo gallery, shrine, and a dreamy seaside aesthetic that evokes old-web nostalgia. The site blends personal writing and reflections with interests spanning Halo, Touhou Project, Runescape, Oblivion, Animal Crossing, and Pallas cats, making it a charming and eclectic corner of the modern indie web.