39 volumes in twelve years, 16 male authors and 9 female authors, several literary awards - the "edition spoken script" proves to be a showcase for Spoken Word in Switzerland and beyond. In the fortieth volume, we want to demonstrate that the scene is much broader and has produced numerous texts that have not yet found a place in our collection. There is a particular need to catch up with female authors, who are increasingly appearing and succeeding. We also focus on authors who perform alongside musicians and those from other language regions of Switzerland. Over 40 authors are represented - with spoken texts and poems, short stories, theater monologues, song lyrics, and some slam texts (these alone could fill a separate volume) in dialect, standard German, French, and Italian. They all show that the expansion of published Spoken Word is not complete with this 40th volume.