Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 07/09/2025
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): Mariann Carroll - My Fun Interview With Michelle Liew
🥈 Second Place ($15 Bonus): Mother Combs - Everyone Gets a Soapbox
🥉 Third Place ($10 Bonus): JBaz - Conversation with Nana
🏅 Forth Place ($8 Bonus): angela hepworth - loss/past/present/future/love
🏅 Fifth Place ($5 Bonus): Mackenzie Davis - Update, Take 2
🌟 Honorable Mentions ($3 bonus)
River and Celia in Underland - The Underland Review: Call for Submissions.
Lamar Wiggins - Lost within a choice
Carolina Borges - ✨500 Reads Haiku Challenge: Winners Announced!✨
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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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
Masterful proofreading
Zero grammar & spelling mistakes
On-point and relevant
Writing reflected the title & theme
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Instructions Included Challenge Winners
For the Instructions Included challenge, we asked writers to tell a story through instructions and to trust the form to carry what could not be said outright. Across the top entries, that trust paid off in many different ways.
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Congratulations to everyone on the Leaderboard and all the Vocal Creators who published their stories.
Huge congrats to this week’s winners! 👏 I’ve been diving deeper into Vocal lately, and it’s incredible to see how much emotion, originality, and connection these stories spark. I am really inspired by the momentum here — hope to contribute something meaningful to future weeks too. ✍️ Thanks for curating such a thoughtful space!
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Thank you Vocal, this made my day. Thank you to all who read the interview. Thank you, Michelle Liew ❤️. Congratulations to all the winners 🏆
It feels weird to not be up there. Lol. NGL, but joking aside. Well done to all the lovely people up there - congrats!
Congratulations to everyone. Great stuff.
Congratulations to all!
Congratulations to all! Good work.
Congrats, yall!
Congrats to all that made the board👍👌
First- it's WEDNESDAY already????? Second- congratulations all... and enter the Soapbox unofficial challenge outlined in Mother Combs' piece.
Congratulations everyone & thank you so much!!! ♥️♥️♥️