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Hahndorf student overcomes neurological disorder to win writing award

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Despite having a neurological disorder that affects his ability to handwrite, 11-year-old Andrew Trinkle has won the 2022 Young Writers Award for a colonial-era short story about an innkeeper, a constable and “the matter of 80 shillings”.

The young Hahndorf resident, pictured, achieved first place in the Year 4/5/6 prose category for his 500-word story Australian Early Settlers Prose, in whic...


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