Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 01/21/2026
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): Caitlin Charlton - Hunger, Racism, and the Misfortune of Greed
🥈 Second Place ($15 Bonus): JBaz - Bless me Father
🥉 Third Place ($10 Bonus): Rick Henry Christopher - Gloria's Special Guest
🏅 Forth Place ($8 Bonus): Tim Carmichael - My New Book is Finally Here
🏅 Fifth Place ($5 Bonus): The Invisible Writer - The Call
🌟 Honorable Mentions ($3 bonus)
Kelli Sheckler-Amsden - Hello You
HandsomelouiiThePoet (Lonzo ward) - My Sweet-Thang💝
Paul Stewart - Five—One Grounding
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 Vocal Curation Team5 days ago in Resources
Dead and Wearing Green
She was wearing that green dress when I first saw her, five years ago to the day. Flowing meadow fabric draped over long legs, thick auburn hair flowing down her back. That smile. Of course, she is still beautiful now. But now she is no longer alive.
By Karen Cave5 days ago in Fiction
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Well done all!
Congratulations to everyone
Congratulations 🎊 🥰I read most of the story on the Leaderboard!
Congratulations to everyone! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Congratulations everyone 👏
Congratulations everyone. I am reading your stories now! 🥰
Congratulations to all! ⚡️💙⚡️
Well done all 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺♦️♦️♦️♦️♦️♦️♦️♦️
Congratulations, all!
Thank you Vocal and congrats to everyone.
Another day to offer my thanks, another chance to extend my support. Thank you so much to the Vocal team and to those of you who interacted with me. I am here to support your journey just as you support my growth. It is this mutual encouragement that makes our community so vibrant. Congratulations to this week's winners: 🎉 JBaz 🎉 🎉 Riccckkk 🎉 🎉 Tim🎉 🎉 The invisible writer 🎉 🎉 Kellliiiiii 🎉 🎉 Handsomelouii🎉 🎉 Paauuulll 🎉 🎉Mariann🎉 🎉 Novel 🎉
Thank You Guys, For The Honorable Mention ❤️🎖 Congratulations Everyone🎊
Huge congrats to everyone!! Caitlin!! You go girl!!
wow...thank you
Congrats, everyone. Most of these are fire.
Congratulations!