Rookie cop story secures teacher's short story win at Banjo Paterson Writing Awards

Tanya Marschke
July 22 2017 - 7:00am
LITERARY WINNER: High school English teacher John Scholz is delighted to have won the Banjo Paterson Writing Awards short story competition with Movement at the Station. Photo: SUPPLIED
LITERARY WINNER: High school English teacher John Scholz is delighted to have won the Banjo Paterson Writing Awards short story competition with Movement at the Station. Photo: SUPPLIED

After months of reading short stories for the Banjo Paterson Writing Awards, the judges have settled on a story about a young policeman taking up his first posting in a frontier settlement in South Australia as their favourite.

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Tanya Marschke

Tanya Marschke

Journalist

I am based at Orange and cover a wide range of subjects as well as the weekly business column. I've worked consistently in the the media industry since 2006 including the past seven years at the Central Western Daily. Before moving to Orange, I worked as a journalist at weekly newspapers the Beaudesert Times and the Gold Coast Sun in Queensland, as well as the Scone Advocate in the Hunter Valley. I started my career at the Ridge News in Lightning Ridge while I completed my journalism studies remotely at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst.

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