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Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 41 No. 7. April 10 1978

Helping Hands lift you Higher

Helping Hands lift you Higher

Harlan Ellison made the comment in Again, Dangerous Visions that there is something special about the SF community. There are regular get togethers where the older established writers will talk to newcomers about the craft of writing. Can you imagine Norman Mailer or Jaqueline Susann or Erich Segal getting together with his (or her) juniors to help them on to the paths of success?

Robin Scott Wilson runs the Clarion workshops — one of the better known and more successful. Such an exercise disproves the George Bernard Shaw quotation: "Those who can, do: Those who cannot, teach."

This is done by having prominent writers talk about writing. The Garion has a very good record, but closer to home, Ursala Le Guin operates a writing workshop in Australia and the resultant efforts are printed in The Altered I (edited by Lee Harding, Norstrilia Press).