Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 12/17/2025
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.
This will be the final Leaderboard update of the year, we'll be back at it January 7, 2026. Wishing everyone a happy holiday season.
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): Caitlin Charlton - The absence of fire
🥈 Second Place ($15 Bonus): Paul Stewart - That Same Old Refrain
🥉 Third Place ($10 Bonus): Harper Lewis - Painting the Dress
🏅 Forth Place ($8 Bonus): Matthew J. Fromm - The Last Hearth
🏅 Fifth Place ($5 Bonus): Tiffany Gordon - You're Almost There...
🌟 Honorable Mentions ($3 bonus)
S. A. Crawford - Confession: I am Not Nice
Rick Henry Christopher - Mute Marches
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 Madison "Maddy" Newton7 days ago in Geeks
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Happy holidays, keep warm and enjoy the break Vocal.
Enjoy the holidays all.
🎊 Congratulations Everyone 🎊 👏
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Congratulations winners, have a peaceful and joyful holiday and New Year Vocal Leaderboard staff!
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Great job everyone!
Congratulations, everyone! I'm pleasantly surprised by where my name is and humbled by the company I find myself in.
The book my poem was inspired by is still making me blush. At the moment it was written, I was on page 181; now, I am on page 234. Thank you to the Vocal team and to those of you who have been interacting with me. I have the Oxford World’s Classics edition. If you have a different edition (assuming you have the book, of course), let me know which one you’ve got! 🤗🙏🏾❤️🖤 Congratulations to: Paul 🎉♥️ Harper 🎉♥️ Matthew🎉♥️ Tiffany 🎉♥️ S.A (loved your piece) 🎉♥️ Susan 🎉♥️ RIIIICKK🎉♥️ Sara 🎉♥️ Caroline 🎉♥️
Congratulations, all!!
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Good morning, Vocal! Thanks for highlighting these writers and content. Congratulations all