The Creative Independent publishes art, comics, essays and zines about grief & illness, music and politics & justice at thecreativeindependent.com, a site they built themselves. Last published August 2026, still publishing this year. Vouched for by 7 other writers in the index.
7 writers vouch
Years at it, against the index
Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 2, from the earliest date the crawl saw. The index reads front pages, so it sees most writers as younger than they are.
Anatomy of the site
Pages
12 captured1 section found
Front page
1121 KB, 7 scripts, 1 imageindex median front page: 112 KB
Trackers
none
Links out
2 other writers in the index, 53 other sites, 2 platforms
Found
2026-08-25, by following another writer's link
Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does
Single words from their own pages, weighted by how rare each is across the 4,473 sites in the index. The small number is how many sites in the index use the word at all. Never a line of the writing.
Who vouches6 writers in the index
6 writers in the index keep a link to this site. What they call it is printed as they wrote it.
ranked here because: still publishing · essays, stories, or poems · vouched by the literary end
How the machine sees this site
Ranked about 153,582 in the top million domains.
A feed. Readers can follow the site without a platform in between.
Counts its readers with a privacy-respecting tool and nothing else.
The copyright line names a person, not a company.
No trackers. Nobody is counting the readers.
The navigation carries a commercial page or two.
Why search does not surface this site, and why that is the machine's problem.
Readers
Hearts show once a writer reaches three. No account, no cookie.
Every figure on this page was measured from the site itself and says where it came from. Nothing is quoted from the writing and nothing is written by a model. Something wrong? One email corrects it: hello@longhandalmanac.com. Want out of the index? Same address, or two lines in your robots.txt (how), and this page is gone the next morning.