Collected Voices in the Expanded Field - a collectively written novel composed of 34 unique voices from the expanded field. It doesn’t quite read like a collection of short stories but one, long loosely linked set of weirdness.

Collected Voices in the Expanded Field, 11:11 

Press, 2020.

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Collected Voices in the Expanded Field is a collectively written novel composed of 34 unique voices from the expanded field.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter One: Mike Corrao

Chapter Two: Grant Maierhofer

Chapter Three: B.R. Yeager

Chapter Four: Elisa Taber

Chapter Five: Garett Strickland

Chapter Six: Mónica Belevan

Chapter Seven: Germán Sierra

Chapter Eight: Judson Hamilton

Chapter Nine: Rosie Šnajdr

Chapter Ten: Tatiana Ryckman

Chapter Eleven: Joshua Rothes

Chapter Twelve: Ryan Napier

Chapter Thirteen: Joshua Young

Chapter Fourteen: Benjamin DeVos

Chapter Fifteen: A.S. Coomer

Chapter Sixteen: Nathan Dragon

Chapter Seventeen: James Tadd Adcox

Chapter Eighteen: Sean Kilpatrick

Chapter Nineteen: Garrett Dennert

Chapter Twenty: James Nulick

Chapter Twenty-One: Christina Tudor-Sideri

Chapter Twenty-Two: Ali Raz

Chapter Twenty-Three: Vincent James Perrone

Chapter Twenty-Four: Evan Isoline

Chapter Twenty-Five: David Leo Rice

Chapter Twenty-Six: Kenny Mooney

Chapter Twenty-Seven: Tyler Crumrine

Chapter Twenty-Eight: Arielle Tipa

Chapter Twenty-Nine: Gary J Shipley

Chapter Thirty: Adam Tedesco

Chapter Thirty-One: Mike Kleine

Chapter Thirty-Two: Jake Reber

Chapter Thirty-Three: Candice Wuehle

Chapter Thirty-Four: Andrew J. Wilt

Coordinated and designed by Mike Corrao, Collected Voices in the Expanded Field (11:11 Press, 2020) contains 34 chapters, each by a different author, all opening with the two 11-word lines, “You see a watering hole. Reprieve from the old dusty path.” Publisher Andrew Wilt compares and contrasts the book to the inexpensive compilations punk labels used to put out. It’s like them in that it’s a good way both for his 11:11 imprint to publish a bunch of authors at once and for readers to find them. It’s different in that though they all have books out, a lot of these authors are not published elsewhere by 11:11. Wilt and Corrao wanted to showcase members of “this weird writing scene” they’re a part of.

The book represents an experiment on several different levels. Outside of the launching lines, the chapters are set in conversation with the chapters around them. That is, this doesn’t quite read like a collection of short stories but one, long loosely linked set of weirdness. There are also whole chapters of script pages, word art, and glitchy layouts. The 34 voices here include Arielle Tipa, Evan Isoline, Candice Wuehle, Ali Raz, Sean Kilpatrick, Tatiane Ryckman, Jake Reber, Mike Kleine, Rosie Šnajdr, and my friends B.R. Yeager and Gary J. Shipley, as well as Wilt and Corrao themselves. It’s one hell of a line-up. - Roy Christopher

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