Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 02/25/2026
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 unique 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): Sandy Gillman - When Amazon Says You’re a Disappointment
🥈 Second Place ($15 Bonus): Lamar Wiggins - cosmic reverie
🥉 Third Place ($10 Bonus): Tiffany Gordon - Braids...
🏅 Forth Place ($8 Bonus): Caitlin Charlton - At My Wits’ End
🏅 Fifth Place ($5 Bonus): Mariann Carroll - Road Map To Winning A Large Amount Of Money
🌟 Honorable Mentions ($3 bonus)
Susan Fourtané - The woman who controls the weather
John R. Godwin - Revelations Await
Paul Stewart - John and Paul's Three-Word Haiku/Senryu Unofficial Challenge
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 David E. Perry7 days ago in Fiction
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Thank you! Woot Woot! Congratulations all! 🥳
I think I read every single one of these! I'm gonna go back and double check! Very well worthy of their placement! Congrats all!!
Wow, I'm touched. Congratulations everyone! 🏆
Congratulations, everyone!
Congratulations to all of you 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
The Vocal community continues to humble me with its support. Supporting each other through reading and commenting is so gratifying - on the receiving end, for sure, but also on the giving end. Thanks to all of this amazing community!
It’s great to see creators who value engagement and put real effort into their responses to their audience rewarded. Super proud to have so many of these hardworking, talented writers in my village.
Bravo to all! #pensdownheartsreveal
Congratulations Everyone
Congratulations Everyone 🎊
Congratulations to All 🥰🥳
Congrats everyone!