so very virtual - 07.26.2026

livestream theatre, music, and more! 📻

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.

🎟️ All prices listed are in U.S. dollars unless otherwise noted.

🙅🏾 No Generative AI is used in the creation of this newsletter.

📋 To submit a listing, email theeclarel@substack.com with “so very virtual” in the subject line.

📚 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

• Preview Class: Experience the Writing to Heal Immersive with GrubStreet — July 28th from 6:30 to 7:45 PM ET // Free

• Genderqueer Support Group with GenderQueer DC — July 28th from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET // Free

• The Word Works Better with Us: Why Poetry Needs Disabled Voices with The Poetry Lab — July 28th at 8:30 PM ET // Free

• The Stories We Tell: The Politics of Stigma and the Language of Immigration Reporting with USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism — July 29th from 11:30 to 12:30 PM PT // Free

• Screenwriting Essentials: Improving the Read with Pipeline Artists — Wednesday, July 29th at 7:00 PM ET // $35

• Money Talk: What’s Your Financial Story? with SoundPath — Wednesday, July 29th from 7:00 to 8:00 PM ET // $50

• Financing 101 with Humanitas — Wednesday, July 29th from 5:00 to 6:30 PM PT // Free

• BLACK/GAY/stuck at home: LOVE@FIRSTNIGHT with Foreground — Wednesday, July 29th from 9:00 to 10:00 PM ET // Free

• MacArthur Series | Disability + Racial Justice Solidarity with Disability Cultural Center — Wednesday, July 29th from 6:00 to 7:30 PM PT // Free

• Poetry as Perspective: On Teaching Poetry to Non-Poets with Blue Stoop — Thursday, July 30th from 4:00 to 5:00 PM ET // Free

• BFS July Virtual Screenwriting Workshop with Black Film Space — Thursday, July 30th from 7:00 to 8:30 PM ET // $15

• Write Your World: Worldbuilding Workshop with N.K. Jemisin (Livestream) with The New York Public Library — Saturday, August 1st from 2:00 to 4:30 PM ET // Free

• giving & receiving: a consensual flow of sex & money with Queer Care Connections — Sunday, August 2nd from 5:00 to 7:00 PM PT // $40 to $90

• Writers’ Access Support Staff Training Program Information Session with The Writers Guild Foundation — August 4th at 9:30 PM ET // Free

• Drew Empire - Live from Come Now Garage — Friday, August 7th from 7:00 to 8:00 PM ET // Free

• Beyond the Book: Writing Adaptations - In Partnership with Stephens College MFA in TV and Screenwriting (Livestream) with The Writers Guild Foundation — Friday, August 7th from 7:00 to 8:30 PM PT // $20

• A Pan***ic Play (Livestream) with PBH’s Free Fringe — August 9th through 30th at 11:20 AM ET // Free

• Author Platform Essentials for Writers Who’d Rather Be Writing with Pipeline Artists — Wednesday, August 12th at 7:00 PM ET // $35

• Flame: The Songs of Amara Janae Brady and Xander Browne (Livestream) with 54 Below — Sunday, August 23rd at 9:45 PM ET // $28 + $5.44 estimated fee

• Long COVID Defense Series IV: 5 Individual Q&A Sessions with MaskTogetherAmerica — Wednesday, September 2nd from 3:40 to 6:40 PM ET // Free

• Black Disabled Writers Circle with denise shanté brown — September 24th from 6:00 to 7:30 PM ET // Free

• Black Disabled Writers Circle with denise shanté brown — September 26th from 2:00 to 3:30 PM ET // Free

• Emerging Trans Researchers Conference 2026 with Trans Health Research Group and Australian Research Consortium for Trans Youth and Children — October 13th/14th from 9:30 PM to 1:30 AM ET // Free

Online Opportunities 🛋

Fellowships, jobs, programs, and more

• Held by the Baobab, a virtual Astro-Cosmological Ngoma Mulema Journey with Saturn

• Call for Abstracts with Emerging Trans Researchers Conference — Submit by July 31st.

• Sentence Club, a craft book bookclub with Literary Liberation — Join by August 1st.

• Collaboratory Journey Applications for Mentors and Mentees with Girls Write Now — Apply by August 31st.

• The Draft Drawer Submissions with Shared Drafts Project — Submit by September 15th.

Remote Resources 📘

Support and info for these pandemic times

• How to protect your community from ICE when you have Long COVID from The Sick Times

• herb of the sun by jay délise, free e-book

• Making Pride Accessible: Six queer artists reflect on performing with Long COVID from The Sick Times

• Kids’ Zone Covid-Conscious Magazine Issue 24: Creativity and Innovation Edition from World Health Network

• Enough: The Anthology edited by Roan Boucher and Dean Spade from Enough: The Personal Politics of Resisting Capitalism

• Don’t Make Waves Campaign from World Health Network

• We’re Still Here: Disabled Writers on Claiming Space Recording from AWP

• Healing is Collective: Books on Care, Community, and Belonging from Literary Liberation

• Zines from Disability Action Research Kollective Zines

• How do I create a writing routine around caregiving or full-time work? from Literary Liberation

• Sonic Sea, free documentary from NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council)

• “Disabled parenting is a rejection of intensive and consumeristic contemporary parenting.” from Literary Liberation

• Microplastics Are Micromonsters from NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council)

• The Self-Edit: Guide to Revising Your First Draft from Permission to Write

• Summer Bonus: More than 100 reasons why people of all ages should avoid getting Covid from The Covid-Is-Not-Over Newsletter

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.