Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 07/16/2025
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): Matthew Fromm - Lights Over London
🥈 Second Place ($15 Bonus): Sandy Gillman - Drinking, Dancing, Loving, and Birthing to 'You’re My Angel'
🥉 Third Place ($10 Bonus): Rachel Deeming - Milk
🏅 Forth Place ($8 Bonus): Tiffany Gordon - Today, I Turn 51... 🧁🎂🍨🫶🏾
🏅 Fifth Place ($5 Bonus): Susan Fourtané - Little flower by the path
🌟 Honorable Mentions ($3 bonus)
Imola Tóth - The First Cut Is The Deepest
Joe O’Connor - The storm before the calm
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.
About the Creator
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By creators, for creators.
Reader insights
Outstanding
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
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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More stories from Vocal Team and writers in Vocal and other communities.
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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Comments (29)
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NICE! WORK
Aww, I never placed on the leaderboard before, it was such a pleasant surprise. Congrats to everyone!
Congratulations to you all. Well done
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Congratulations- so many brilliant stories.
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Congratulations to all the winners 🏆 🥰🥰🥰
Congratulations to all! Good job.
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Another great week of literary wonder Congratulations all
Congratulations to everyone mentioned, you inspire me to do better, thankyou xx
Aww thanks guys! Congratulations to everyone 👏
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Heyyyy thanks everyone! Appreciate all the love for my humble little story
Nice to see Matty the Frommster as the topster of the leadboarder. Some other great names in there too!
YA'LL! You deserve every accolade you can get! Congratulations!
CONGRATES everyone
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