Wofford Summer Programs
Wofford College enjoys a close connection with the literary community, attracting creative writers ranging from the Nobel Prize–winning poet Seamus Heaney to promising and important regional authors such as George Singleton.
The College’s reputation for summer academic programs is equally rich, providing young writers an insider’s understanding of the literary process and inspiration.
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.