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Identity Challenge Winners
Sam Eliza Green has been a creator with Vocal since the summer of 2021, and has published 114 pieces — warm congratulations on their first Challenge win. Their free-flowing poem, You, and I, and She takes first place in our Identity Challenge, its short lines a conversation about being and feeling, one which inhabits emotion with exploratory language. We loved the images of a winter “when nothing feels right/ and wrong has carved/ into my skin like/ the sharp snap/ of abandonment.” Image and sensation do a slow dance that draws the reader in.
Vocal Curation TeamPublished 5 months ago in ResourcesVocal Bonus Leaderboard: 12/27/2023
We've made it to the final installment of Vocal's Weekly Leaderboard in 2023! As we bid farewell to this remarkable year, we're thrilled to spotlight the outstanding creators and stories from the past week.
Vocal TeamPublished 5 months ago in ResourcesSmooth Challenge Winners
Life is rough, sometimes; we could all do with a little smoothing out. In the entries to our Smooth challenge, there were stones and fur, water and ice, the wind over soft skin. Congratulations to Kate Kastelberg, our winner with ‘New Stones in the River: A Life Insured’, a truly lovely sestina that indicates loss but gathers memory into joy. “The years since the river was born,/ I have sat on its stony shores, passing/ time’s spells: feel roughshod rock turn to velvet as lilies bloom right/ from the water’s surface, slowly at first, earning/ their place in the sun.” Kate’s terrific poem is a reminder that a stricture — like one of our challenge rubrics — can be a gift rather than a constraint, an opportunity to take a concept and make it one’s own.
Vocal Curation TeamPublished 5 months ago in Resources📢 Raise Your Voice Thread: 12/21/2023
Our “Raise Your Voice Threads” are hosted every other Thursday 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.
Raise Your Voice by VocalPublished 5 months ago in ResourcesVocal Bonus Leaderboard: 12/20/2023
Join us in celebrating the standout creators who lit up Vocal this week with their remarkable stories and poems, eliciting strong community admiration and support.
Vocal TeamPublished 5 months ago in ResourcesArid Challenge Winners
An actual desert, or a desert of the mind? This time we gave you the ending of your tale, an evocative line: "Engulfed in the desert's parched silence, I was nothing but another grain of sand in the wind." We couldn’t wait to see where your creativity would take you, and the entries to the Arid challenge did not disappoint.
Vocal Curation TeamPublished 5 months ago in ResourcesVocal Bonus Leaderboard: 12/13/2023
As we dive into another week of vibrant creativity on Vocal, we're thrilled to celebrate the voices that echoed the loudest and stories that resonated the deepest. From the spirited discussions sparked by Lamar Wiggins' "A Vocalite Holiday 2023" to the touching pieces by Heather Hubler, Kendall Defoe, and Brenton F, our community continues to flourish.
Vocal TeamPublished 5 months ago in Resources📢 Raise Your Voice Thread: 12/7/2023
Our “Raise Your Voice Threads” are hosted every other Thursday 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.
Raise Your Voice by VocalPublished 5 months ago in ResourcesVocal Bonus Leaderboard: 12/6/2023
Welcome to the latest edition of the Vocal Bonus Leaderboard, where we showcase the outstanding achievements of our creators! 🌟
Vocal TeamPublished 6 months ago in ResourcesNeolomicro Challenge Winners
Traditional. Worthless. Obscene. Perfectly ordinary — and extremely useful — words, aren’t they? Yet according to the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, they hadn’t been a part of the English language until the Bard coined them; there are many others in his remarkable lexicon.
Vocal Curation TeamPublished 6 months ago in ResourcesVocal Bonus Leaderboard: 11/29/2023
Welcome to the latest edition of the Vocal Bonus Leaderboard, where we showcase the outstanding achievements of our creators! 🌟 Based on feedback from yesterday's Creator Chat (and many other voices prior!), we are thrilled to introduce a new Leaderboard category: Emerging Creators. This award recognizes creators who joined the platform within the last 90 days, and achieved the highest combined number of likes and comments on a story published in the past week. It's our way of acknowledging and encouraging new creators on the platform. The addition of this award is just the beginning of enhancements we will make to the Leaderboard.
Vocal TeamPublished 6 months ago in ResourcesTips On Formatting Your Vocal Stories
Introduction I see some posts on Vocal and often they are just a block of text or sometimes have links posted in them that don’t actually link. This is often part of the learning curve with the Vocal editor.
Mike Singleton - MikeydredPublished 6 months ago in Resources