Creative%20writing events near Montréal, QC
Sketching Fun in Montréal: Let's Get Creative!
Group name : Montréal Sketching Training Group
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
Wed, Nov 20 · 11:30 PM UTC
Pay your bills … with your art.
Group name : Business Skills for Creative Souls
Thu, Nov 21 · 12:00 AM UTC
Let's create together.
Group name : Lotus Blossom Mindful Creativity
Thu, Nov 28 · 10:00 PM UTC
Community arts open house / schmoozer with yes/elan/qwf/qdf.
Wed, Dec 4 · 11:30 PM UTC
Grant writing essentials – 2-part mini series.
Mon, Dec 2 · 6:30 PM UTC
Jump start your art & financing options.
Art After Hours
Group name : Art After Hours: Virtual Art Hangouts
On-line Wednesday Sketching Practice Group
Group name : Global Sketching Practice Group
Sun, Nov 24 · 8:00 PM UTC
Online beginner drawing workshop.
Group name : Ottawa Drawing and Painting
Unleash Your Creativity: Spontaneous Writing Group
Group name : Chicago Next Culture Network Meetup Group
Everyone is an Artist
Group name : Everyone is an artist
Shut Up & Create Tuesday Evenings
Group name : Shut Up and Paint Online
Sunday Morning Mess
Shut Up & Create Mondays
Shut Up & Paint Online Thursdays
Let's Chat & Embroider
Group name : SlowMakers Meetup Group
Mon, Dec 9 · 12:00 AM UTC
Painting party - holiday time.
Group name : Painting Party
Mardis - Drink and Draw
Group name : Mardis Drink and Draw
Life Drawing | 20-Min Poses
Group name : Life Drawing MTL
Our Fall 2024 Workshops are now open!
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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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Creative writing workshops events in Montreal, Canada
WHY WE WRITE
Wednesday at 5:30 PM
290 Rue de la Montagne 3rd floor
Creative Writing Workshop
Tue, Oct 1, 6:30 PM
Bibliothèque publique de Dollard-des-Ormeaux
Grant Writing Essentials – 2-Part Mini Series
Wed, Dec 4, 6:30 PM
YES Employment + Entrepreneurship
CLAY & CHILL
Sat, Nov 30, 2:00 PM
250A Rue Saint-Paul E suite 202
Business Case Writing Certification Training in Rimouski, PE
Friday at 9:00 AM + 9 more
Regus Business Centre
Mini mosaic jewelry workshop
Thursday at 1:00 PM
Marookies bakery
Build Your Own Scrum (BYOS)
Friday at 9:00 AM + 11 more
Agile Lounge inside Crew Collective
Business Writing 1 Day Training in Montreal
Wed, Dec 11, 9:00 AM
For venue details reach us at: [email protected]
Vino & Venus: Poetry /Journalling Workshop @ Vinorama
Tuesday at 7:00 PM
Vino Rama Montréal
Business Case Writing Certification Training in Longueuil, PE
Friday at 9:00 AM + 16 more
Longueuil, PE
For venue details reach us at [email protected]
Writing a CV 1 Day Training in Montreal
Tue, Dec 3, 9:00 AM
Creative Problem Solving and Decision Making 2 Days Training in Montreal
Thursday at 9:00 AM + 1 more
Montreal Pottery and Wine Workshop - one time ceramics introduction class
Thursday at 6:30 PM + 22 more
POTTERAE (atelier | studio)
Proposal Writing 1 Day Training in Montreal
Christmas Candle Making Workshop ️✨
Tue, Dec 17, 10:00 AM
Villeray—Saint-Michel—Parc-Extension
Business Case Writing 1 Day Training in Montreal
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