Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 02/11/2026
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 - Lost in Reverie
🥈 Second Place ($15 Bonus): Paul Stewart - The Lesions of Devotion
🥉 Third Place ($10 Bonus): Caitlin Charlton - The Indifferent Sun
🏅 Forth Place ($8 Bonus): Rachel Deeming - Little Owl
🏅 Fifth Place ($5 Bonus): John Cox - we die forgotten
🌟 Honorable Mentions ($3 bonus)
Seema Patel - What I Think About After Death?
Tim Carmichael - Hello from the Mountains, One Year Anniversary of Being on Vocal
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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Public Announcement Challenge Winners
For the Public Announcement Challenge, writers were asked to work inside voices built for control. These were notices, warnings, and updates meant to inform rather than confess. The strongest entries committed to that form and didn't break from it. Corporate memos, formal government alerts, and internal policy language were held consistently, allowing emotion, fear, grief, or humor to surface indirectly through pressure rather than declaration. The following poems recognize the voice of authority, and let human feeling slip through despite all its rules and restraint.
By Vocal Curation Team6 days ago in Resources
Feelings Never Die
It is Valentine's Day again, and it bought back memories that were over fifty years old. It bought me back to 1971, and I woke up and I knew my baby was due today. I was big and pregnant, and I felt like I was about to burst wide open. Imagine my surprise when the doctor told my I had a due date of February 14. I couldn't believe it, and since my baby was due today, I felt I could indulge myself a bit. I had gained a lot of weight, and chocolate was on the no-no list, but I had came to the end of this pregnancy, and I hoped it would be okay, after all I would deliver this baby today. So I walked across the street to the grocery story, and bought myself, a peppermint patty, covered in chocolate, my favorite. Me and my Valentine's baby would enjoy it together.
By Susan Payton7 days ago in Fiction
Comments (16)
Excellent pieces!
Congratulations to everyone! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Thanks, and congratulations everyone!
Congratulations Everyone 🎊 👏 💐 🥳 🎊
Thank you so much for the honorable mention.
Well done everyone 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺
Congratulations to everyone🎉 and thank you for the honorable mention💖
I missed a few of these!! The ones I read I KNEW would place, they were magnificent! Congrats to all!
Thanks and congrats
Congratulations everyone! I’m glad to see I was early to the party on some of these (less catch up reading to do).💖
😉❤️❤️❤️Awesome 👌 Congratulations Everyone 🎊
Congratulations🎉🎉🎉
Congratulations to the esteemed creators! Cheers!
❤️❤️ Thank you so much to the Vocal team and to all of you who shared the effect that second line had. It was illuminating; I received some of the most helpful comments! ❤️❤️ Congratulations to my fellow winners and mentions: Sandy 🎉💐 Paul 🎉❤️ Rachel 🎉💐 John 🎉❤️ Seema 🎉💐 Tim 🎉❤️ Imola 🎉💐 Komal 🎉💐 Susan 🎉💐
Congratulations, all!!
What to go! Congratulations!