Creative%20writing events near Montréal, QC

Sketching Fun in Montréal: Let's Get Creative!

Sketching Fun in Montréal: Let's Get Creative!

Group name : Montréal Sketching Training Group

🦋 Women’s Creativity Workshop Online✨Art Meditate Journal✨Unleash Your Wonders!

Sun, Dec 1 · 5:00 PM UTC

🦋 women’s creativity workshop online✨art meditate journal✨unleash your wonders.

Group name : Women’s Sacred Circle- ✨Mind, Body and Spirit

Pay Your Bills … With Your Art!

Wed, Nov 20 · 11:30 PM UTC

Pay your bills … with your art.

Group name : Business Skills for Creative Souls

Let's Create Together

Thu, Nov 21 · 12:00 AM UTC

Let's create together.

Group name : Lotus Blossom Mindful Creativity

CommUNITY Arts Open House / Schmoozer with YES/ELAN/QWF/QDF

Thu, Nov 28 · 10:00 PM UTC

Community arts open house / schmoozer with yes/elan/qwf/qdf.

Grant Writing Essentials – 2-Part Mini Series

Wed, Dec 4 · 11:30 PM UTC

Grant writing essentials – 2-part mini series.

Jump Start Your Art & Financing Options

Mon, Dec 2 · 6:30 PM UTC

Jump start your art & financing options.

Art After Hours

Art After Hours

Group name : Art After Hours: Virtual Art Hangouts

On-line Wednesday Sketching Practice Group

On-line Wednesday Sketching Practice Group

Group name : Global Sketching Practice Group

Online Beginner Drawing Workshop

Sun, Nov 24 · 8:00 PM UTC

Online beginner drawing workshop.

Group name : Ottawa Drawing and Painting

Unleash Your Creativity: Spontaneous Writing Group

Unleash Your Creativity: Spontaneous Writing Group

Group name : Chicago Next Culture Network Meetup Group

Everyone is an Artist

Everyone is an Artist

Group name : Everyone is an artist

Shut Up & Create Tuesday Evenings

Shut Up & Create Tuesday Evenings

Group name : Shut Up and Paint Online

Sunday Morning Mess

Sunday Morning Mess

Shut Up & Create Mondays

Shut Up & Create Mondays

Shut Up & Paint Online Thursdays

Shut Up & Paint Online Thursdays

Let's Chat & Embroider

Let's Chat & Embroider

Group name : SlowMakers Meetup Group

Painting party - Holiday Time

Mon, Dec 9 · 12:00 AM UTC

Painting party - holiday time.

Group name : Painting Party

Mardis - Drink and Draw

Mardis - Drink and Draw

Group name : Mardis Drink and Draw

Life Drawing | 20-Min Poses

Life Drawing | 20-Min Poses

Group name : Life Drawing MTL

Our Fall 2024 Workshops are now open!

Scroll down to the “upcoming workshops” section to see details..

QWF Members, please note that you must be logged in to receive the Member discount. If you are renewing your membership, this transaction must be processed first before you are able to receive a discount on workshop registration.

QWF Writing Workshops help participants develop writing with the support of an experienced professional writer-facilitator and feedback from peers.

Before registering, we encourage you to read our Workshop Guidelines for Participants and Leaders and Cancellation and Payment Policy .

QWF runs two regular seasons of writing workshops per year, in Spring (March to May) and Fall (October to December). Registration for the Spring workshops opens the preceding December, and for the Fall workshops in August. We offer workshops in a wide range of genres, including long- and short-form fiction, memoir, narrative non-fiction, poetry, playwriting, screenwriting, children’s and/or young adult literature, and career-related topics.

We occasionally run single workshops at other times of year – keep an eye on the site and listings!

We’re always looking for new workshop leaders and ideas for workshops, so if you have a workshop that you’d like to propose or want to see QWF organize, please write to us .

The Fresh Pages Diversity Initiative: Workshop Scholarships for Underrepresented Writers

Each term, QWF offers four full scholarships to aspiring writers and playwrights who are Indigenous, Black, or persons of colour. Click here for more information>>

For the Fall 2024 workshop season: Please note that all of our Fresh Pages Scholarships have been claimed and a waiting list for them has been created. To request a spot on the waiting list, please email Riley Palanca at [email protected] .

Needs-Based Workshop Scholarships

QWF offers an additional four full scholarships each term to participants who would not be able to attend without financial support. Click here for more information>>

For the Fall 2024 workshop season: Please note that all of our needs-based scholarships have been claimed and a waiting list for them has been created. To request a spot on the waiting list, please email Riley Palanca at [email protected] .

Upcoming workshops

Writing for documentary film.

In this workshop, you will learn how to craft a brief documentary film proposal.  More info

Writing the Personal Essay

The personal essay is a subgenre of creative nonfiction that focuses on unique stories with universal appeal told from a first-person perspective. In this 8-week course, you'll learn everything from how to generate ideas to how to structure your first and second drafts to how to pitch your completed piece. More info

The Vivid and Continuous Dream: A Short Story Workshop

This workshop is a guided discussion about the plot, characters, point of view, structure, and language (the mechanics or “craft”) of participants’ short stories, as well as an investigation of each story’s aboutness, patterns, emotional plot, and central question(s). More info

Memoir: Turning Yourself into a Character

The current memoir is often about a period of time during which the writer learned something about themselves. Which should make all of us potential memoirists. More info

The Poet’s Toolbox

This workshop will help you to develop your voice as a poet by kindling your creativity with the support of a variety of writing tools, prompts, poetic forms, and other techniques. More info

Writing Real Life for Children: Conjuring Up Creative Non-fiction for Young Readers

This workshop offers a framework for writers of any level of experience to explore their own passions, interests, and experiences through the concise format of a picture book manuscript. More info

Hooked: Writing Compelling YA Fiction

Each session will incorporate a mix of writing prompts, critique sessions, exploration of writing techniques, sneak peeks into YA literature, and lively group discussions. More info

Poetry and the Tiny Sea in the Ear 

During these eight weeks, we will draft and develop poems that tap the surprise of tension and release, tease out what’s wild in the everyday, refresh expectation and sharpen expression.  More info

Pursuing the Erotic

The workshop continues the exploration of what makes the erotic not only a sensual genre but a life-affirming one with participants contributing their own writing as well as sourcing that of other practitioners. More info

Pitch, Plan, and Lead: How to Get and Give a Workshop for Writers

Together with other emerging and established literary folk, we’ll talk about how to conceive, plan, and lead a successful QWF workshop, whether on an aspect of craft, a literary genre, or an angle on the business of writing. More info

Mastering Book Marketing: An Intensive Workshop for Authors

This one-day seminar will be a participatory and interactive exercise in finding solutions and strategies to build an audience, engage readers, and keep readers for the duration of your writing career. More info

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  • StoryScaping Workshops
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  • The Mairuth Sarsfield Mentorship for Underrepresented Writers
  • Fresh Pages Workshop Scholarships for Underrepresented Writers and Playwrights
  • Guest Curatorship at the Words & Music Show
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Creative writing workshops events in Montreal, Canada

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Wednesday at 5:30 PM

290 Rue de la Montagne 3rd floor

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Creative Writing Workshop

Tue, Oct 1, 6:30 PM

Bibliothèque publique de Dollard-des-Ormeaux

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Grant Writing Essentials – 2-Part Mini Series

Wed, Dec 4, 6:30 PM

YES Employment + Entrepreneurship

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CLAY & CHILL

Sat, Nov 30, 2:00 PM

250A Rue Saint-Paul E suite 202

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Business Case Writing Certification Training in Rimouski, PE

Friday at 9:00 AM + 9 more

Regus Business Centre

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Mini mosaic jewelry workshop

Thursday at 1:00 PM

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Build Your Own Scrum (BYOS)

Friday at 9:00 AM + 11 more

Agile Lounge inside Crew Collective

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Business Writing 1 Day Training in Montreal

Wed, Dec 11, 9:00 AM

For venue details reach us at: [email protected]

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Vino & Venus: Poetry /Journalling Workshop @ Vinorama

Tuesday at 7:00 PM

Vino Rama Montréal

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Business Case Writing Certification Training in Longueuil, PE

Friday at 9:00 AM + 16 more

Longueuil, PE

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For venue details reach us at [email protected]

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Writing a CV 1 Day Training in Montreal

Tue, Dec 3, 9:00 AM

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Creative Problem Solving and Decision Making 2 Days Training in Montreal

Thursday at 9:00 AM + 1 more

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Montreal Pottery and Wine Workshop - one time ceramics introduction class

Thursday at 6:30 PM + 22 more

POTTERAE (atelier | studio)

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Proposal Writing 1 Day Training in Montreal

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Christmas Candle Making Workshop ️✨

Tue, Dec 17, 10:00 AM

Villeray—Saint-Michel—Parc-Extension

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Business Case Writing 1 Day Training in Montreal

For venue details reach us at [email protected]

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