As a multimodal, performative art form, spoken word exhibits a complex relationship to the process of writing. If we understand (the movement of) writing not simply as a technique (Zanetti 2012) but as a physical act (Nancy 2003; Brandstetter 2015), the production of a spoken word text can be read as what Gabriele Brandstetter, in relation to dance, has described as „space writing“ („Raum-Be-Schreibung“; 2015, 392), i.e. as a writing scene that is performed with both the body and the voice and written into the space of the performance. Building on considerations by Ludwig Jäger (2010a, b, 2014), Julia Novak (2011, 2017, 2020) and Claudia Benthien (2013; 2021; 2023), the article examines the various writing situations in contemporary spoken word literature by and for young people and its different transmedial dimensions. By example of spoken word performances by Precious Nnebedum and Jason Reynolds, it teases out the different writing practices of the performative located within a multidimensional spectrum between orality and scripturality, liveness and mediatization.