Alief Taylor NCFL TFA IQT

2026 — Houston, TX/US

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A: Prose Interp (UIL Cat A)

Event Description:

Material chosen for use in Category A of Prose Interpretation shall meet the following restrictions:

(A) One to four selections of prosemay be used.
(B) If performing a single selection, the prose shall be published, printed material; internet material shall be prose published concurrently in hard copy.
(C) If multiple prose selections are used, one prose selection may be unpublished, but not self-authored.
(D) Selections from plays, screenplays, movies, and monologues shall not be used.
(E) Speeches shall not be used in this category.
(F) No contestant shall use the same writer in more than one category in the contest.
(G) No contestant shall use selections from the same literary work more than one year at UIL State Meet.
(H) Selections shall be read in the English translation; however, incidental use of foreign language words and phrases in any selection may be used as in the original.

The goal of this category is to recognize joy in even the simplest of things. The overall tone of the performance should be joyful.

In this category, the contestant may read a single literary work of prose, an excerpt of a work of prose or may create a program containing no more than four literary works of prose. If a program is used, one prose selection from an unpublished source is allowed in the program but may not be self-authored.. The majority of the performance must bepublishedprose. The performance should evokean appreciation of finding joy.

For Category A, the performance may be fiction or non-fiction.Co-authored and anonymous works of prose are permissible. The author(s) used in this category shall not be used in Category B of prose.

When using copyrighted material, each member school is responsible for obtaining permission from the publisher for their participant to use the material. UIL assumes no responsibilities for copyright permission to perform material.

The introduction and/or transitions shall include all titles and authors read andshould connect the literature to the goal of the category.If the program is woven, it shall be stated in the introduction, and the different literary works should be distinguishable through interpretation.

Documentation Requirements

1. If performing a single literary work, it shall be published printed prose.
2. If performing a program, all selections shall be published, printed prose, with the exception that one prose selectionmay be unpublished, but not self-authored.
3. The contestant shall prepare andprovide for the contest director and each judgea hard copy of the UIL Prose A Documentation online form.
4. The contestant shall provide proof the selection(s) are published.

Examples of acceptable proof of publication include:

• the original published source
• a photocopy of the copyright of the original source
• online printout of Library of Congress cataloguing information
• If a prose selection is drawn from a literary collection (anthology), the contestant shall supply the original source or a photocopy of the table of contents that designates the title of the book and proof the prose selection is included in that book
• A printout from an online source proving the selection is included in the published collection. Printouts of online documentation shall include the URL of the website downloaded in the header or footer
• If a prose selection is drawn from a book containing mixed genre, the contestant shall provide proof the selection is prose.

Examples of unacceptable forms of formal documentation include:

• Social media
• Copying and pasting into a word processing document

See theUIL Prose and Poetry Handbookand the official UIL website for expanded, detailed information about acceptable and unacceptable documentation.

Students are urged, but not mandated, to take to the contest site the original published source of the selection.