so very virtual - 06.25.2026
make it a COVID safer summer ☀️
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
BFS June Late Night Virtual Screenwriting Workshop with Black Film Space — Thursday, June 25th from 10:00 PM to 12:00 AM ET // $15
BLACK/GAY/stuck at home: DAKAN Film Screening with Foreground — Friday, June 26th from 9:00 to 11:00 PM ET // Free
Develop a Writing Process and Practice with Felicia Pride — Saturday, June 27th at 9:00 AM PT / 12:00 PM ET // Free
WHN Clean Air Panel Discussion 2: Safer Schools with World Health Network — June 29th at 11:00 AM ET // Free
Getting Ready for Q3 Workshop with Shimmer ADHD Coaching — Monday, June 29th from 12:00 to 1:00 PM ET // Free
Level Up the Structure of Your Story with Reedsy — June 29th from 3:00 to 4:00 PM ET // $18
Online Novel Incubator Graduation Showcase 2026 with GrubStreet — June 29th from 6:30 to 8:30 PM ET // Free
Writing Group: Hot Draft Summer with GrubStreet — Begins June 29th // $190
The Writer’s Guide to Feedback with Sundance Collab — Tuesday, June 30th from 1:00 to 2:30 PM ET // $10
Virtual Pride with The Sick Times — Tuesday, June 30th from 8:00 to 9:00 PM ET // Free
Planting Seeds: How to Grow Your Newsletter with Blue Stoop — Thursday, July 2nd from 4:00 to 5:00 PM ET // Free
Accessible Virtual Pride 2026 with Calling UP Justice — July 4th and 5th // Free
Trans-Atlantic Poetics: Reading & Writing Diasporic Blackness with Celium — Begins July 5th // Sliding scale from $300 to $500 with one free spot available
Performance for Writers, Writing for Performance with The Shipman Agency — Begins July 6th // $200
High Schoolers Are Changing the System with Seeding Sovereignty — Tuesday, July 7th from 6:00 to 7:00 PM ET // Free with $5 donations welcome
Capturing the Visceral Horror of Coming of Age in LEVITICUS with Sundance Collab — Tuesday, July 7th from 7:00 to 8:00 PM ET // Free
SHAPE THE FUTURE…OF ART with Intelligent Mischief — Wednesday, July 8th from 12:00 to 1:30 PM ET // Free
Finding Your Voice as a Feature Writer with Haq Story School — Begins July 8th // From $500
Bridging Divides Through Storytelling with Sundance Collab — Thursday, July 9th from 1:00 to 2:00 PM ET // Free
Disability Pride Writing Workshop with #MEAction — Thursday, July 9th from 2:00 to 3:00 PM ET // Free
Building a Sustainable Writing Practice in an Unpredictable Life: Open Coaching Hours with LVW Creative— Thursday, July 9th at 7:00 PM ET // Free
Free True Story Generator with GrubStreet — July 10th from 6:00 to 7:00 PM ET // Free
Agents & Managers with In The Cut — July 11th from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM PT // $35
Fast Fuel Micro-Retreat with FORGE NYC — Sunday, July 12th from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM ET // Free
Building a Sustainable Writing Practice in an Unpredictable Life: Open Coaching Hours with LVW Creative — Sunday, July 12th at 3:00 PM ET // Free
Dead Pilots Society with The Elysian — Sunday, July 12th from 3:00 to 5:00 PM PT // $15 for video on demand
Animal Communication Development Intensive with Arden Intuition — Begins Sunday, July 12th // Sliding scale from $189
Building a Disability Politic & Access-Centered Cultures with PeoplesHub — July 13th and July 20th from 3:00 to 5:00 PM ET // Choose what to pay starting at $40
Instant Book Club: Poetry with Blue Stoop — Tuesday, July 14th from 6:00 to 7:00 PM ET // Free
The Plot Wheel: More than Just Structure with Pipeline Artists — Wednesday, July 15th at 7:00 PM ET // $35
Can Theatre Still Be Theatre When We Aren’t Sharing Physical Space?: Creating Theatre in Virtual Spaces with Directors Gathering — Sunday, July 19th at 5:00 PM from 5:00 to 6:30 PM ET // Free
No Notes: Two Comedy Pilots Adapted for the Stage with Dynasty Typewriter — July 19th at 7:00 PM PT // $25
Ec(h)o-Feminism: Mapping the Femme On & Beyond the Body with Celium — Begins July 23rd // Sliding scale from $400 to $600 with one free spot available
Short Film Success Strategies with In The Cut — July 25th from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM PT // $35
Resource Allocation Mixer with Black Remote She — July 29th from 2:30 to 4:00PM ET // Free
Financing 101 with Humanitas — Wednesday, July 29th from 5:00 to 6:30 PM PT // Free
Rock the Writers’ Room with In the Cut — August 8th from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM PT // $35
remote writing retreat August 2026 with the remote body — August 10th through 14th / Sliding scale from £50.00 - £120.00 with no one turned away for lack of funds
Can Theatre Help in Healing?: Theatre as Therapy with Directors Gathering — Monday, August 17th from 7:00 to 8:30 PM ET // Free
9th Annual Spiritual Herbalism Conference with Sacred Vibes Community Healing Initiative — October 9th through 11th // $100 for a virtual ticket
Online Opportunities 🛋
Fellowships, jobs, programs, and more
Disability Zine Microgrants with Wild Ramp Publishing — Apply June 30th.
Poets Camp with Ariana Brown — Sign up by July 21st.
Take Control of Your Money with Be Intentional Finance — Apply July 24th.
Call for Papers: There, Then and Now: Disability Studies at the End of the World with the Society for Disability Studies — Submit by September 20th.
Call for Interviews: Trans Long Covid Experience with Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) with the Sick Times and the Trans Journalist Association
Trans Surgery Support with QueerCare
Volunteer Opportunity with QueerCare
Remote Resources 📘
Support and info for these pandemic times
Care on Our Terms Zine from Trans Lifeline
Air Changes Per Hour is a Good Start. Clean Air Per Person Is the Metric We Like Better (and why you should too) from Positive Deviance
Health Justice Toolkit from MaskTogetherAmerica
10 Principles of Disability Justice in Plain Language from Sins Invalid
Own or Loan: Juneteenth Edition, reading recommendations from Literary Liberation
Read the Caribbean: 20 Titles to Read Next from Literary Liberation
What Trans Joy Sounds Like [Masked] Concert from Seattle Trans and Nonbinary Choral Ensemble
Next to Normal, full musical recording from PBS Great Performances
An Interview with Fear by Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo, free Craft Chap from Sundress Publications
On Managing Oneself: Poetry Lessons from a Former B-School Basement Research Goblin by Stine An, free Craft Chap from Sundress Publications
Elements of Story Workbook from In the Cut
About Justin
Justin Clarel is a pro-mask and anti-COVID writer, theatre artist, and educator creating Black trans and queer stories to build a better world. Keep up with their adventures at @theeclarel and theeclarel.com.