Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 06/11/2025
Celebrating creativity, engagement, and community building on Vocal.
Welcome to our weekly Leaderboard update! We're delighted to highlight Vocal's most popular stories. Join us as we recognize this week's standout contributors and their remarkable achievements.
A reminder of some ground rules we use to formulate the Leaderboard:
The time period of data analyzed for each weekly Leaderboard is collected from 12:00am Wednesday - 11:59pm Tuesday ET each week. Only top level comments and replies by Vocal+ creators will count, comments or replies by the story author will be excluded. You don’t need to be Vocal+ to appear on the leaderboard. You can appear on the Leaderboard once per week. You can appear on the Leaderboard multiple weeks in a row. No AI generated content.
✨ Most Discussed Stories this Week ✨
Here are the stories that have sparked the most comments with their engaged readers this week.
🏆 Winners
🥇 First Place ($20 Bonus): D.K. Shepard - Vocal Acrostic Challenge Winners
🥈 Second Place ($15 Bonus): Lamar Wiggins - This Beautiful Illusion...
🥉 Third Place ($10 Bonus): Mother Combs - Poe-Found
🏅 Forth Place ($8 Bonus): L.C. Schäfer - Dollar Challenge - Invention Edition (May/June)
🏅 Fifth Place ($5 Bonus): Tiffany Gordon - This Merry-Go-Round Of Grief... 🎠✝️🎠✝️🎠✝️🎠✝️🎠
🌟 Honorable Mentions ($3 bonus)
Matthew Fromm - Sunday Night Arena
Donna Fox (HKB) - Out of Reach
Annie Kapur - "A Day in the Life" - Winners List!
Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred - My Imposter Syndrome Is Still Hanging Around
Each winner will receive a well-deserved bonus in their Vocal Wallets within the next 72 hours.
Congratulations to all the winners! We love what you bring to the table at Vocal. Here's to another week of excellent writing and reads.
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Excellent work. Looking forward to reading more!
Top insights
Compelling and original writing
Creative use of language & vocab
Easy to read and follow
Well-structured & engaging content
Expert insights and opinions
Arguments were carefully researched and presented
Heartfelt and relatable
The story invoked strong personal emotions
On-point and relevant
Writing reflected the title & theme
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📢 Raise Your Voice Thread: 01/08/2026
Our “Raise Your Voice Threads” are hosted most alternating Thursdays at 12PM ET to offer creators more avenues to uncover exceptional stories on Vocal. As we are continuously searching for fresh creators and inspiring stories, this thread provides an opportunity to exchange and discuss the stories that have moved and motivated us on Vocal.
By Raise Your Voice by Vocal3 days ago in Resources
Comments (22)
Congratulations everyone ♥︎❤️♥︎
Congratulations to everyone.
Well done all 😁❤
I changed the title of my one story and can't find it in my published anymore. Where do I go to find it again?
Congress
Congratulations
Congratulations, everyone, keep up the fantastic work!
Vocal team, sorry to draw attention to it, but fourth has been written as "forth" for a few weeks now. Forgive me, I never relish pointing out typos 🙏😭 I just wish to help.
Congratulations!🎉🎉🎉
Congratulations to everyone! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Congratulations, everyone!
Well done everyone💙🏆🙏✍️🏆
Well done everyone congratulations
congrats everyone.
Way to go!
Congratulations everyone 🎊
Congrats to those who placed!!
Forever a honourable mention. I am happy, thank you, Vocal and well done to all the proper writers.
How wonderful! Thanks everyone! This will certainly help after I went way over my Challenge prize budget! Hopefully the Stripe Issue I encountered will be resolved soon so I can send out the remaining prizes!
Congratulations everyone!
Congrats to everyone! Gosh, I got so much to catch up on!!!
Congratulations everyone!! ♥️♥️