so very virtual - 05.08.2026
camps, comedy, childhood studies, and counter-mapping ✍🏽
so very virtual is a free newsletter featuring opportunities, events, and resources that are fully virtual, remote, or hybrid with an online option.
🔍 Please look into events and opportunities to decide whether they are right for you. Send any concerns to theeclarel@substack.com.
📋 To submit a listing, email theeclarel@substack.com.
📚 If you’re new, start with this pandemic resource roundup.
Thanks for reading!
Virtual Events 🎟
Gatherings that are either fully online or hybrid with an online option
Showruner’s Assistant Bootcamp with In the Cut — Saturday, May 9th from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM PT // $15
Q&A for Mask-Required Summer Camps with Boston Private Tutors — Saturday, May 9th at 2:15 PM ET // Free
COVID Community Grief Space with Forest Floor Findings — Saturday, May 9th from 3:00 to 4:30 PM ET // Suggested donation of $15 with sliding scale options
Understanding Caste: Reading Anti-Caste Literature with Workshops 4 Gaza — Saturday, May 9th from 5:00 to 7:00 PM ET // Suggested donation of $40
Mother’s Day Grief Space for the COVID Community with Forest Floor Findings — Sunday, May 10th from 3:00 to 5:00 PM ET // Free
Weekly Planning Workshop with Momentum — Monday, May 11th at 11:00 AM ET // Free
On the Record: A Journalism Career Chat with Girls with Girls Write Now — May 12th from 4:45 to 6:00 PM ET // Free
Our Black Life is Worth Something: Femicide, Black Women, and Fighting for Our Lives with Black Women Radicals — May 12th at 6:30 PM ET // Free
LGBTQIA+ Free Verse Workshop: The Queer and Trans Body’s Etymology with The Poetry Society of New York — Tuesday, May 12th from 7:00 to 8:15 PM ET // Free
Introduction to Science Fiction & Fantasy with The Porch — Tuesday from May 12th to June 2nd // $255
The Said and the Unsaid: Writing Your Characters Through Dialogue with Pipeline Artists — Wednesday, May 13th at 7:00 PM ET // $35
Disability Comedy: Live From Your Living Room with Squeaky Wheel Media and Disability Unite — Thursday, May 14th at 8:00 PM ET // Free
A Care-Centered Approach to Documentary Filmmaking with Sundance Collab — May 15th from 3:00 to 6:00 PM ET // $30
Friday Night YIN YOGA for Burnout with Sammie Nokes — Friday, May 15th at 7:00 PM ET // Pay what you can with suggested donation of at least $30
May Crip Arts Gathering with RestFest Film Festival — Saturday, May 16th from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM ET // $10 with pay-what-you-can and scholarship options
SPECTACULAR: A TV Pilot About the Making of an Amazing Musical Disaster Livestream — Saturday, May 16th from 7:00 to 8:30 PM PT // $25
Writing a Memoir Readers Will Love with Reedsy — May 17th from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM ET // $99
Short Story Incubator Graduation Showcase with GrubStreet — May 18th from 6:30 to 7:45 PM ET // Free
Orion Presents Working the Land: Lessons in Labor and Collective Action with Orion Magazine — May 19th at 2:00 PM ET // Free
How Doulas Can Help Disabled Pregnant People with the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy and the National Center of Disability and Pregnancy Research — May 20th at 1:00 PM ET // Free
In Search of Our Mother’s Voices: An Auto-ethnography on Garifuna Women’s Feminist Praxis with Stanford University — May 20th at 6:00 PM ET // Free
The Foundation: Crafting Brilliant Loglines & Outlines with Pipeline Artists — May 20th at 7:00 PM ET // $35
Writing Our Grief with Forest Floor Findings — Sunday, May 24th from 3:00 to 4:30 PM ET // Suggested payment of $5 to $15, no one turned away for lack of funds
Finesse Your Finances: A Career Chat with Raymond James with Girls Write Now — May 26th from 4:15 to 5:30 PM ET // Free
Games as a Narrative Medium with Sundance Collab — May 28th from 4:00 to 5:00 PM // $10
How to Work with Movement Artists as a Journalist with Press On — Friday, May 29th from 9:00 to 10:30 PM PT // $1 to $125, no one turned away for lack of funds
Be better broken: Disability Justice and Death Methodologies with Meraj Publishing — Saturday, May 30th from 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET // Sliding scale from $0 to $50
The Abolitionist Atlas & New Afrikan Counter-Mapping with Workshops 4 Gaza — Saturday, May 30th from 5:00 to 7:00 PM ET // Suggested donation of $40
Poetic Justice: Writing Toward a Better World with Literary Liberartion — Saturdays from May 30th to June 20th // $229 to $329
The Diaspora Child Strikes Back: Transnational Desires and Childhoods of Empire 2026 Conference with the Rutgers University-Camden Department of Childhood Studies — June 11th through 13th // Free
Writer’s Block Isn’t Real: On Embracing Stillness with Literary Liberation — Saturday, June 13th from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM ET // $189 with financial aid seats available
How to Create a Writing Habit with GrubStreet — June 13th from 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM ET // $85 with scholarships available
That’s All She Wrote: Short Stories by Black Women with Literary Liberation — Mondays, June 15th through July 6th // $229 to $329
Entering the Page: Found Poetry Through Toni Morrison with Literary Liberation — Thursday, June 18th from 5:00 to 7:00 PM ET // $119
Online Opportunities 🛋
Fellowships, jobs, programs, and more
Partners in Dime Finance Class with Be Intentional Finance — Register by May 9th.
Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants with New York Foundation for the Arts— Apply by May 12th.
Assistant Social Media Manager with Sundress Publications — Apply by May 15th.
Disability Inclusion Fund Grant with Borealis Philanthropy — Apply by May 20th.
Editorial Intern with Sundress Publications — Apply by May 25th.
2026 (DG) Summer Salon Series Proposals with Directors Gathering — Submit by May 25th.
Submissions for Issue 6: VEXED with Plantin Magazine — Submit by May 30th.
Editorial Fellowship with Teachers & Writers Magazine — Apply by May 31st.
Speculative Online Workshop with McCormack Writing Center — Apply by June 3rd.
Disability Grief Gathering Cohort with Fully Woven — Register by June 4th.
Submissions on Finding Your Way Home with twurl — Submit by June 24th.
Community Microgrants with Squeaky Wheel
Book Reviewer with Abode Press
Mad Mail Monthly Art-Based Mail Club with Project LETS
Remote Resources 📘
Support and info for these pandemic times
Does Disabled COVID Shame Matter? from Cyrée Jarelle Johnson
COVID-19 spreads year round. Here’s how to track it. with The Sick Times
I developed Long COVID while practicing medicine. The system had no place for me. from The Sick Times
#MillionsMissing 2026 Toolkit from #MEAction
South Carolina Measles Outbreak from World Health Network
WHN Voices Magazine Issue 1: Long COVID from World Health Network
Strangely Optimistic, 2026 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge Entry
Poetry for Getting Free Reading List from Haymarket Books
Indigenous Worlmaking: A Trans of Color History Zine, Vol. 2
Black Studies is for Everyone Symposium Videos from Princeton University
Resources from Intelligent Mischief
Landscapes Issue 03: A Circle of Circles from A Blade of Grass
Community Prompt #17 | The Things You Carry from Literary Liberation
War tax resistance for small business owners from Queer & Trans Wealth
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.