Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 11/19/2025
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): Rick Henry Christopher - The Winners of The Haunted Letter Challenge
🥈 Second Place ($15 Bonus): Paul Stewart - Do You Want People to Separate You From Your Art?
🥉 Third Place ($10 Bonus): Sam Spinelli - Open letter, to all vocal writers:
🏅 Forth Place ($8 Bonus): Heather Hubler - the wilds of solstice sun and stars
🏅 Fifth Place ($5 Bonus): Sandy Gillman - The Voice Collector
🌟 Honorable Mentions ($3 bonus)
Caitlin Charlton - She still lives in me
Imola Tóth - Médea's Recipes for Life
Gina C. - If Winter Were a Dress
Stephanie Hoogstad - Have Vocal's Efforts to Keep Stories in English Gone Too Far?
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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By Raise Your Voice by Vocala day ago in Resources
Fair Exchange, No Robberies
Dark Memoirs - Index There are at least two kinds of people in the world: those who write this half-arsed kind of intro to a story that looks to separate the rare and the norm, and those who realise it's an overused framing device and don't.
By Paul Stewart4 days ago in Chapters
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Congratulations to all!
Congratulations to everyone
Congratulations to winner. Good wishes for others. Congratulations 🎉
congratulations to all mentioned!
Congratulations you guys! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Thanks and congratulations everyone!
Congrats everyone!
Congratulations to everyone mentioned xx
I just joined and I’m new to everything here and just want to say congratulations to everyone! I also wanted to say hi and introduce myself. I look forward to reading as many of you as I can. 💕
Thank you! Congrats everyone! 🫶🏾💕🥳
Congratulations everyone. I am especially proud of my people Tiffany, Sam, Caitlin, Imola and Sandy. Well done 🥳🥳🥳
Thank you, everyone :)
Kudos to everyone.
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Congratulations!! 🎉🎉🎉
Congrats to everyone! And thank you for your support and making me land on it! ❤️ I was surprised!
Congratulations to Paul, Sam, Heather, Sandy, Caitlin, Tiff, Imola, Gina, and Stephanie for your placement on the leaderboard. Thank you to those of you that support me here on Vocal. I truly appreciate it.