Take Part in one of the Summer's Most Innovative Creative Writing Programs for Teens.
Held on the historic campus of Wofford College, Shared Worlds takes multi-disciplinary learning to a new level. During this two-week-long residential campus learning experience, students will work together with authors and instructors to create entire worlds, complete with history, economy, language and culture. Students will write in those worlds, share those worlds and apply those worlds to fiction, art, and game design.
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A Program Designed For Teen Writers Interested in Today's Hottest Fantasy Fiction Genres.
Work in group sessions with noted historians, scientists, authors and philosophers.
Create your own world, complete with its own languages, laws and cultures.
Network with other creative students from around the world.
Publish your work with the help of noted authors.
Engage in dyanamic programs designed to foster creativity through lifelong social and wellness skills
Receive credentials recognizing this unique achievement along with a full professional evaluation to provide positive reinforcement for writing skills and college success.
News Updates
6/26/08 -- We're thrilled to welcome Ekaterina Sedia to the Shared Worlds faculty. Sedia's second novel, A Secret History of Moscow is a wonderful "hidden world" contemporary fantasy about which international bestseller Neil Gaiman said, "Deep, dark, remarkable stuff." The novel has also received rave reviews from The Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, among others. Her latest novel, The Alchemy of Stone, is out this summer and looks to be a wonderful addition to the popular steampunk subgenre.
Sedia will be talking to the students and doing workshop exercises with them on non-Western cultures as they relate to world-building.
6/25/08 -- Financial aid form now available! Click here scholarships.
4/15/08 -- Shared Worlds signs one of the world’s best fantasists, Jeff VanderMeer as instructor.
VanderMeer is a two-time winner of the World Fantasy Award and has also been a finalist for the Hugo Award, the Philip K. Dick Award, the International Horror Guild Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award.
His most recent books have made the “year’s best” lists of Publishers Weekly, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Weekly, Publishers’ News, and Amazon.com.
04/01/08 -- Steven Zides will lead a world design group and will also teach the following classes: Pull Yourself Together: Newtonian Gravitation and Planetology; Dancing with the Stars: Stellar Evolution and the Conservation of Energy; Getting There is Half the Battle: Interplanetary and Interstellar Travel; and, All Creatures, Great and Small: General Relativity and Quantum Theory.