SharedWorlds

SUN. JULY 20 - SAT. AUG. 2 WOFFORD COLLEGE

Housing and Security

Students will stay in supervised college dorms during the program
Wofford College is committed to providing a safe and secure environment for students, faculty, staff, and campus visitors. Throughout the summer, security personnel will continue preventive patrols, 24-hour accessibility, and crime prevention measures. Health Services staff will also be available to assist in medical emergencies and other emergency situations.

News Updates

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.