so very virtual is a free weekly newsletter featuring opportunities, events, and resources that are fully virtual, remote, or hybrid with an online option. if you’re new, start here.
Please learn more about an event or opportunity to decide whether it is right for you. You can send any concerns to theeclarel@substack.com.
Action Alerts 🔔
Steps to support a better world
Take C19LAP’s survey on Long COVID disability applications.
Virtual Events 🎟
Mostly free, low-cost, and scholarship-supported virtual or hybrid events
Crip Bloc: Disability + Protest Panel — May 24th at 6:00 to 7:30 PM PT // Free
Visual Storytelling Masterclass with Film Reframed — May 29th through May 31st at 10:00 AM PT // Free
Intro to Meta Business (Facebook) with Charlie J. Meyers — Wednesday May 29th from 6:30 to 7:45 PM ET // $25
Creating Characters for Animation Across TV, Games & Branded Content: A Virtual Panel with The Collision Awards — May 30th from 1:00 to 2:00 PM ET // Free
Writing About Challenging Topics w/ Autumn Konopka with Blue Stoop — Thursday, May 30th from 4:00 to 5:00 PM ET // Free
Our Community Is Our Remedy with 18 Million Rising — May 30th at 4:00 PM ET // Free
Crafting Authentic Narratives with Charlie J. Meyers — Thursday May 30th from 6:30 to 7:45 PM ET // $25
Decades of Funding Trans Artists: Denise Brown, Gabriel Foster & V Chaudry with Leeway Foundation — Tuesday, June 4th from 6:00 to 7:00 PM ET // Free
Submitting to Paying Literary Markets with Yasmine Ameli — Wednesday, June 5th from 6:00 to 9:00 PM ET // Sliding scale $50 to $100
June Friday Night Writes with GrubStreet — June 7th from 5:30 to 6:30 PM ET // Free
Teen Summer Writing Classes with GrubStreet — Beginning late June
Fund Your Writing: Fellowships, Grants, & Residencies with Yasmine Ameli — Wednesday, June 26th from 6:00 to 9:00 PM ET // Sliding scale $50 to $100
Word Play: 6 Weeks | 3 Genres with Yasmine Ameli — Starts July 18th // Sliding scale $180 to $360
Online Opportunities 🛋
Fellowships, jobs, programs, and more
Artist Grants with Causability — Apply by May 31st.
Transfeminine Art Call with Efflora: Trans Health— Submit by May 31st.
Heat & Hustle Accountability Program for BIPOC poets & writers with Roots. Wounds. Words. — Begins June 1st.
3d Space by RWW with Roots. Wounds. Words. — Apply by June 2nd.
Field Funds with A Blade of Grass — Apply by June 30th.
Summer Classes with Kitchen Table Literary Arts
Financial Assistance Grants with Musicians Foundation
Remote Resources 📘
Support and info for these pandemic times
Ten new books about Long Covid, chronic illness, and disability from The Sick Times
Transmasculine Poetics: Filling the Gap in Literature and the Silences Around Us edited by Remi Recchia — Anthology from Sundress Publications
Jamaica Kincaid & Kara Walker with Hilton Als: An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children — Event recording from New York Public Library
Taking Care of Your Health Across the Decades: A Guide for the LGBTQIA+ Community from FOLX
Alt-Text Selfies, a celebration and collection of alt text selfies
The Tuba Thieves, free documentary about the nature of sound
About Justin
Justin Clarel is a Black queer writer, performer, and educator creating vibrant stories for a better world. They are most proud of their work with sketch comedy team The Rhubarbs, original works for stage and screen, and love for musical theatre. Keep up with their adventures at @theeclarel and theeclarel.com.