Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 07/30/2025
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 Interview With Kendall Defoe, College Instructor and Author
🥈 Second Place ($15 Bonus): Babs Iverson - LET THE RAIN COME DOWN
🥉 Third Place ($10 Bonus): Tiffany Gordon - Grandma's Divine Healing Appointment...
🏅 Forth Place ($8 Bonus): Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred - This Is My Writer's Block
🏅 Fifth Place ($5 Bonus): Mother Combs - Life Ain't No Rock~N~Roll Song
🌟 Honorable Mentions ($3 bonus)
Tim Carmichael - Things I Don't Say When I Read Your AI Poem
Matthew Fromm - A Hypocrite Yells At Clouds
Novel Allen - Summer's Rain 🌧️
River and Celia in Underland - Autism. Not Your Diagnosis to Define.
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
Vocal Team
By creators, for creators.
Reader insights
Outstanding
Excellent work. Looking forward to reading more!
Top insights
On-point and relevant
Writing reflected the title & theme
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
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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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GO ON MIKE GETTING ON THE LEADERBOARD!
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Eh! Say what Dharrsheena, LB, well, thanks for the heads up dharling. A hearty howdoyado to all and...handshakes of congrats to all, it has been a while, really time for a visit here. Ha, ha...I really see my name. Have a happy day Vocal behind the scene-ers and all Vocalites everywhere. Thank you and good night/day or somewhere in between. I'm taking happy meds..if anyone thinks i've gone mad or stoned on sometin'.
Congratulations to all of you.
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Congratulations, One & All!⚡
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Congrats all! 🎉 Thx Vocal & God! 🙏🏾
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Congratulations 🎊 🥰My dear friends Babs Iverson, Mike Singleton MikeyDred and Sweet Tiffany! Mother Combs Congrats !! Yah!!!
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nice to see some familiar names and also to see a story about autism too.
Matt is back on the Leaderboard and all is well with the world 😌
Woohoo!!! Thank you vocal readers and vocal!!! Congratulations too!!❤️❤️💕