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Live cohort
Creative Writing Lab
A warm, rigorous workshop for finishing short fiction and personal essays — with weekly prompts, line edits and a reading night to close the term.
Duration
6 weeks
Schedule
Wed · 18:00–20:00 CET
Next cohort
What you’ll walk away with
One finished short story or essay
Line edits from Amara on your final draft
A peer group that keeps you writing
A list of magazines open to new writers
Syllabus
How the weeks unfold
Week 1 · The habit
Set up a sustainable writing routine and draft every day from short, specific prompts.
Weeks 2–3 · Scene and character
Desire, obstacle and detail: how scenes move and why readers keep turning pages.
Week 4 · Voice
Find the sentence rhythms and point of view that sound unmistakably like you.
Weeks 5–6 · Revise and read
Workshop a complete piece in small groups and share it at the closing reading night.
Your mentor
Amara Okafor
Novelist & writing coach
Amara has published two novels and coached more than 900 writers through their first finished drafts. She teaches the craft of the scene: what a character wants, what stands in the way, and the one detail that makes a reader believe.
Course fee
€490
or three monthly instalments, interest-free. Free cancellation until your first session.
16 live studio sessions
3 private mentor calls
Recordings & templates for a year
Certificate of completion
Questions? admissions@simela.academy
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