📢 Raise Your Voice Thread: 01/08/2026
Champion your favorite creators
Our “Raise Your Voice Threads” are hosted most alternating Thursdays at 12PM ET to offer creators more avenues to uncover exceptional stories on Vocal. As we are continuously searching for fresh creators and inspiring stories, this thread provides an opportunity to exchange and discuss the stories that have moved and motivated us on Vocal.
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For obvious reasons... check out Bootlickers by Kay Husnick.
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📢 Raise Your Voice Thread: 12/18/2025
Our “Raise Your Voice Threads” are hosted most alternating Thursdays at 12PM ET to offer creators more avenues to uncover exceptional stories on Vocal. As we are continuously searching for fresh creators and inspiring stories, this thread provides an opportunity to exchange and discuss the stories that have moved and motivated us on Vocal.
By Raise Your Voice by Vocal2 months ago in Resources
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.
By Vocal Curation Team5 days ago in Resources
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I always like these threads because they remind me how much of Vocal I’d probably miss if I stayed in my own little reading bubble. The note about not just dropping links but actually explaining why a piece mattered stood out to me — it feels like an invitation to slow down and be intentional about what moved us, not just what’s trending. It makes me curious how people decide which stories stick with them long enough to recommend here — is it the writing itself, the timing, or something personal it taps into?
This short piece by Harper Lewis is worth reading https://todaysurvey.life/writers/ice-ice-baby-i424cz0v21%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="css-w4qknv-Replies">
Hello all! I'd like to recommend a friend and fellow nurse that hopped on Vocal a little while ago. If you appreciate a spooky story with a delightful twist, I'd like to offer her story "Till Death Do Us Part" https://todaysurvey.life/horror/till-death-do-us-part-eb1hoe0abz%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="css-w4qknv-Replies">
Happy New Year everyone! I love this one by Novel Allen. it's some great life advice to live by with some beautiful images https://todaysurvey.life/poets/how-to-be-au-da-cio-us%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="css-w4qknv-Replies">
I’ve been reading through a lot of great “Small Heat” challenge haiku- I have a lot of favorites, I thought this one by Darla Seely was pretty great- https://todaysurvey.life/poets/evening-stars-appear%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="css-w4qknv-Replies">
Hey all! Gabe the poet and occasional short-story-teller here. I'm never quite sure how to describe what I create; musings on life, time, loss, nature, other vague lovely things I suppose! Feel free to check them out. My very own brother has just joined this site a little while ago, and I find great comfort in his entry to the haiku challenge: https://todaysurvey.life/poets/comfort-food-9aala0qx0%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E He's got one other poem up so far that's pretty stellar, too! :)
This one blew me away with its quiet honesty: https://todaysurvey.life/fiction/unresolved-yqoz0xfp%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="css-w4qknv-Replies">
Just before my nomination, please can I say a huge thank you to everyone for your kind welcome-back messages, after my two years in the sadly Vocal-deprived land of China! Now I'd like to recommend Andriana Sonnenblume, a poet and author of a multi-part prose narrative titled Landings. The link below is to the second chapter (a favourite of mine!) but the whole project is well worth a read, for its unexpected twists and turns, its topical cautionary elements, and the affirmation of humanity which is to be found at its core: https://todaysurvey.life/chapters/landing-2%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="css-w4qknv-Replies">
I am Marie381Uk I write. Short stories. vocal.media seem to ignore me so I nominate my self if you have time check out my writings I keep writing asking why they ignore still they do. Tell me by commenting on what you read am I good enough ?
Thanks for the shoutout!
Colleen Walters blew me away with: https://todaysurvey.life/poets/the-star-h0p2i0y95%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E Gentle and powerful explanation of the profound
Hey, Everyone, I am An Urban LGBT plus Poet,❤️❤️ This Is My Latest, https://todaysurvey.life/poets/sabbatical-4gufn0qj0%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="css-w4qknv-Replies">
Great shout on that poem! I've been bad at getting reads in but those will return soon. In between my yearly review series I managed to finish my piece for Liam Storm's challenge: https://todaysurvey.life/fiction/the-baker-s-paradox%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="css-w4qknv-Replies">