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📢 Raise Your Voice Thread: 1/18/2024
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 4 months ago in ResourcesVocal Bonus Leaderboard: 1/17/23
Welcome to the latest Leaderboard! It's time to honor the outstanding creators and stories that have graced Vocal this past week.
Vocal TeamPublished 4 months ago in ResourcesVocal's Investor Day Webinar Recap
On behalf of the Vocal team, I'd like to extend a warm thank you to everyone who participated in Vocal's Investor Day webinar yesterday. We invite you to watch the video above for a comprehensive recap of the event.
Justin @ VocalPublished 4 months ago in ResourcesVillanelle Challenge Winners
The villanelle is a complex and demanding form. As we said in our Challenge prompt, we’re so glad that our creators — another shout out to Mike Singleton - Mikeydred, Lauren Elizabeth, Sonia Heidi Unruh, Dane BH, and J.M. Powell — suggested that we run this one (please do put your own thoughts into the comments on Share Your Ideas to Shape the Future of Vocal Challenges!)
Vocal Curation TeamPublished 4 months ago in ResourcesVocal Bonus Leaderboard: 1/3/2024 & 1/10/2024
As we reflect on the first days of 2024, it's evident that our community of creators has wasted no time in setting the stage for another spectacular year. The first Weekly Leaderboards of 2024 showcase the brilliance that has unfolded so far. Let's delve into the remarkable creations and accomplishments that have set the tone for what's to come this year!
Vocal TeamPublished 4 months ago in Resources📢 Raise Your Voice Thread: 1/4/2024
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 4 months ago in ResourcesThe 2023 Vocal Reverb and Yearly Leaderboard
This week's Leaderboard looks a little different. We're fashionably late to the 2024 party, and we know it — blame it on a bit too much coffee or perhaps a few too many attempts at perfecting that Villanelle Challenge.
Justin @ VocalPublished 4 months ago in ResourcesIdentity 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 4 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 4 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 Resources