Scrawl

A clean, responsive theme for long-form writing, with bold featured images, fancy image captions and pull quotes, and plenty of space for your content to shine. A slide-out sidebar provides ready access to all your secondary content, including social links, custom menu, and widgets.

Saga

A tailor-made theme for writers by a published author and professional theme designer. Words are important to all writers. Getting those words to display beautifully on the screen can be a daunting task. Saga was created so that you could simply tell your story without worrying about the technical details. Aside from impeccable typography and attention to detail, the theme provides several easy-to-use customization options so you can personalize your site’s design. It also integrates with the Literary plugin.

Ryu

Ryu is a clutter-free theme for personal bloggers. It has great readability with a large font size, and the one-column layout is perfect for displaying large images. Optional widgets are located at the top panel with social media links and a search field. Background color for an image post will automatically match the uploaded image in the post.

Runo Lite

Runo WordPress theme has been made especially for poets and writers. It is lightweight, clean, simple and spacious and feels like your favorite notebook – focus entirely on content. It has a custom menu, background and header image, three layout choices, widget support (sidebar and three footer widget areas) and advanced text/poetry editing tools. The user experience for all details from the text editor to print output has been designed with writers and readers in mind. Add footnotes easily with [ref]shortcode[/ref]. When wanted, it preserves extra line breaks and spaces in your writing – respects your poems, that is. The responsive and minimal layout looks good in every device. Runo Lite is ready to translate and is available in English, Finnish, Swedish and Russian. Cross-Browser compatible (even the IE6). Only in Runo Premium: modify the whole layout; select fonts and font size.