Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 08/20/2025
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): Lamar Wiggins - A Final Glimpse
🥈 Second Place ($15 Bonus): Lana V Lynx - If Great Dead Writers Were on Facebook - 1
🥉 Third Place ($10 Bonus): Calvin London - English Is a Weird Language – How Many of These Do You Know?
🏅 Forth Place ($8 Bonus): Heather Hubler - Share with me!
🏅 Fifth Place ($5 Bonus): ROCK aka Andrea Polla (Simmons) - On the Road
🌟 Honorable Mentions ($3 bonus)
Tiffany Gordon - Don't Go Chasing The Wind...
Matthew Fromm - Operation Overlord
Susan Fourtané - The day I lost my smile
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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Congrats to everyone there!
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Congratulations to all your great works of writing.
Congrats to everyone there!
Congrats to everyone that earned a spot on the Leaderboard! All very much deserved. Great reads!
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Congrats to all the winners this week 👏 Honestly curious, how do you guys manage to get there? I’m still figuring things out and struggling a bit lol.”
Loved all of these stories but Don't go chasing the wind by Tiffany Gordon really stuck out to me this time! Congrats to all 🎊🎊🎊🎊🎉🎉
Well done everyone 🏆🏆🏆🏆✍️
Congratulations all! 🥳🎉🎉🎉 & Thank you Vocal fam for checking this story out! This one meant a lot to me! & Thx 4 the opportunity Vocal!
Congratulations to all! Well done!
Thank you Vocal team and community for reading and sharing your thoughts in comments. It really is inspiring to hear how others feel about one's writing. Congratulations to everyone!
Congratulations to everyone! 🎂💕
How cool, congratulations!!!
Congratulations everyone 🙂
Congrats to everyone 🥳🥳
Congratulations To All The winners 🏆 👏
Thanks to everyone for commenting on my fun silly story about Dead Writers on Facebook. This is my first time on the Leaderboard since it was redesigned and I'm grateful for everyone who engaged.
Congrats to all!
Congratulations to everyone for Leaderboard placements!!
Especially as we are in the home run dash of Summer, I appreciate all of the Vocal+ members and others reading and commenting!
congrats everyone
Thank you and well done to all the writers on the list. Glad to be up there sharing the HM spot with the Frommster and among other talented writers.