ABOUT
SCRIBO is a writing contest for Latin students at the elementary, middle, or high school level of study. Students may submit any original literary pieces in the following three categories: short stories, poems and comics.
COST
Registration cost: $20 per school. Each registration costs $8.50 ($7.50 for current ACL Members) for each student.
REGISTRATION
Registration is done through the ACL store; submissions will be accepted via Google form provided after registration.
- Registration: September 1 - March 15
- Administration: March 15 - April 15
- Contest Results: Mid-May
RULES
All entries must be electronic with a maximum of 250 words.
- Only one entry is allowed per student.
- Entries are limited to 5 per category per school.
- Each entry will be graded against the same category (i.e. novice poems v. novice poems; advanced comics v. advanced comics).
- Due to the lack of nuance provided by online sources (ex: William Whitaker's Words, latdict.com), print dictionaries are encouraged.
- Teachers are asked to check entries for plagiarism before submitting. Any entry that is plagiarised will not be graded.
- Submissions that fail to comply with the rules will be disqualified. Any English that appears in the Latin writing will be penalized more heavily than Latin grammatical mistakes.
- Poetry and prose submissions must make use of the templates below, which include: a short author's explanation of the literary piece, the Latin composition, and an English translation that matches the Latin. Poetry submissions do not necessarily need to employ a classical meter, but if classical meter is employed, it should be identified.
- Comic submissions must make use of the templates below, which includes: a short author's explanation of the literary piece, the Latin composition, and an English translation that matches the Latin.
- For Comic submissions, illustrations are encouraged but not required for all entries. If illustrations are not present, the grammar/creativity categories will be weighed more heavily. Illustrations do not necessarily need to hand drawn, but if origianl artwork is employed, it should be identified.