🔍 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.

🔍 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.

📋 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

• The Rise of Vertical Series: Opportunity, Disruption & the Future of Storytelling with Black Film Spapce — TODAY, Tuesday, July 14th from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET // $15

• MORNING, AFTERNOON, NIGHT: Writers Bootcamp with Jaclyn Backhaus — July 13th, 14th, and 15th // $45 per session

• Unpolitics Gathering — 2026B — July 13th through 17th // Free

• Making Your Horror Short Film with Yoko Okumura with Sundance Collab — July 14th through 17th // $395

• Repurposing Rapamycin: A Report On the First Biomarker-Driven Treatment Trial for ME/CFS with Solve M.E. — July 14th at 6:00 PM ET // Free

• The Plot Wheel: More than Just Structure with Pipeline Artists — Wednesday, July 15th at 7:00 PM ET // $35

• BLACK/GAY/stuck at home: JACKIE’S BACK with Foreground — Wednesday, July 15th from 9:00 to 11:00 PM ET // Free

• Liberation Foundations 2026 Training Series with the Reproductive Freedom Fund of New Hampshire — July 15th, 22nd, and 29th and August 5th // Free

• Spoonies Unite! A virtual market & soiree with La Vida de Brujx — Saturday, July 18th from 2:00 to 5:00 PM ET // $1 to $15 with no one turned away for lack of funds

• Crip Film Club: We Year by Sop with Artist Q&A with RestFest Film Festival — Sunday, July 19th from 10:00 to 11:30 AM PT // Pay-what-you-can beginning at $1 with limited full scholarship tickets

• Orion Presents The Deep Dive: Our History and Future with the World’s Largest Mammals with Orion Magazine — July 21st at 2:00 PM ET // Free

• Budgeting & Saving for a World on Fire with Chosen Collective — Tuesday, July 21st at 6:30 PM ET // Sliding scale from $15 to $100

• BIPOC Sci-Fi Lab Virtual Table Read with Justice for My Sister — Wednesday, July 22nd from 9:00 to 11:00 PM ET // Free

• Urban Mythmaking: Finding the Fantastical in the City with Wen-yi Lee with Girls Write Now — July 23rd from 6:00 to 7:15 PM ET // Free

• BODY POETREE: An art and poetry workshop on loving and celebrating the body as a tree with RestFest Film Festival — Friday, July 24th from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM PT // $10 with pay-what-you-can and full scholarship options

• July Crip Arts Gathering with RestFest Film Festival — Sunday, July 26th at 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM PT // $10 with pay-what-you-can and scholarship options

• Stress Management with Being Air-Aware with Public Health Action Network and Air Support Project — July 26th at 5:00 PM ET // Free

• Crafting Solidarity: A Disabled QTBIPOC Pride Party! Livestream — Sunday, July 26th from 6:00 to 11:00 PM ET // $0 to $15

• Directing: Building an Intentional Frame with In the Cut — July 27th and 28th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM PT // $60

• Toward Trans Possibilities: Transgender Storytelling with Isabel Sandoval with Sundance Collab — Wednesday, July 29th from 1:00 to 2:00 PM ET // Free

• Write Your Collection: A 4-Week Chapbook Intensive with Button University — Sundays in August from 2:00 to 4:00 PM CT // $100

• Hot Off the Presses: A Career Chat with Editors from The Drift, Bustle, and Travel + Leisure with Girls Write Now — August 4th from 4:45 to 6:00 PM ET // Free

• Dealing with Uncertainty and Chronic Illness-Workshop with Marisa Renee Lee — August 14th at 12:00 PM ET // Free

• Eating Our Poems: Writing About Food with Literary Liberation — Sunday, August 16th from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM ET // $99 with scholarship seats available

• ADHD Growth Summit with Shimmer — August 18th through 27th // $89 early-bird until July 15th

• Fall 2026 Virtual Open House with GrubStreet — August 24th from 6:00 to 7:00 PM ET // Free

• Beginning Songwriting Class ~ Upper Limb Differences & Hand Disabilities with Eli Conley and Lee Swanson — Begins Tuesday, September 1st // Sliding scale from $50 to $476

• creating with our bodies with Reinventing Creative Process — Begins Sunday, September 6th // Sliding scale from $200 to $700 with payment plans, 1 full scholarship, and reduced rates for those facing financial hardship available

• What Was Passed Down: Writing Essays from Instinct, Memory, and Lineage with Literary Liberation — Saturdays, September 12th through 23rd from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET // Sliding scale from $129 to $189 with scholarship seats available

• Space & Time for BIPOC Writers with GrubStreet — Begins October 15th // Free

• Neither Here Nor There: Writing The In-Between with Literary Liberation — Saturday, October 17th from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET // $79 with scholarship seats available

• Poetry Workshop for BIPOC Writers: Writing from the Archive with GrubStreet — Begins November 2nd // Free

• Identity and Invention: Blurring Genres to Write About Ourselves for BIPOC Writers with GrubStreet — Begins November 3rd // Free

• Literary Criticism: A Love Letter with Literary Liberation — Saturday, November 14th from 3:00 to 6:00 PM ET // $99 with scholarship seats available

Online Opportunities 🛋

Fellowships, jobs, programs, and more

• Editorial Assistant with OutHistory — Apply by July 15th.

• The Gift of Attention: A Poetry Workshop with Erin Coughlin Hollowell with Orion Magazine — Apply by July 15th

• Traveling at Home: A Writing Workshop with Erika Howsare with Orion Magazine — Apply by July 15th.

• Sankofa Summer School 2026 — Begins July 20th.

• Socialist Summer School with The People’s Forum — Begins July 21st.

• Creative Incubator for LGBTQ+ Writers with Lambda Literary — Apply by July 22nd.

• Severe ME Artists Project 2026: Call for Entries with #MEAction — Submit by July 24th.

• Short Animation Fellowship with the Titmouse Foundation — Apply by July 31st.

Remote Resources 📘

Support and info for these pandemic times

• tired from Jackie Torres

• Wayside Scribbles

• The Precautionary Principle from Public Health Action Network and Air Support Project

• Take Action Locally in the Fight for Public Health from People’s CDC

• Thank You for Masking Podcast Merch from Alyson Hardwick

• herb of the sun audiobook from Jay Délise

• “We Year” by Sop from RestFest Film Festival

• Crip News v.231: What is Disability Pride Month? from Crip News

• Why Aren’t You Dead Yet?: A Disability in Dystopia Anthology

• Monthly Webinar Recordings from Seeding Sovereignty

• Read the Rainbow: 15 Titles to Bring Pride 🏳️‍🌈 into Focus from Literary Liberation

• Community Prompt #18: Inner Monsters from Literary Liberation

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.

🔍 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

• Mask Bloc Directory

• 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

• smoke and mold issue 13: trans eco horror

• Humanitas Industry 101 Podcast

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.

🔍 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

• Summer Fieldguide Workshop with School of Softness — Sunday, June 14th from 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET // $22

• June 2026 Read and Rant with Athena Project — June 15th from 6:30 to 8:30 PM MT // Free

• Special Screening: World Premiere of ‘We Year’ by Sop with RestFest Film Festival — June 15th thorugh 28th // Pay-what-you-can from $0

• De-Google Your Digital Life: A Phased Approach to Building Digital Resilience with Digital Defense Fund — June 16th at 4:00 PM ET // Free

• Beyond “Show, Don’t Tell” with Mary Kole with Reedsy — June 16th and 23rd // $99

• Leading with Pro-Black Values During Change & Transition Panel with CompassPoint — Wednesday, June 17th from 12:00 to 2:00 PM PT // Free and open to all Black leaders

• The Art of the Thrill: Essentials for Writing Exciting Thrillers with Pipeline Artists — Wednesday, June 17th at 7:00 PM ET // $35

• June Crip Arts Gathering with RestFest Film Festival — June 20th from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM PT // $10 with pay-what-you-can and scholarship options

• Let’s Hear It For the Boys: A Transmasc Cabaret Livestream — Saturday, June 20th at 9:30 PM ET // $26.57

• Queering the Poetic Line: A Masterclass on Derangement and Transgression with Dawn Lundy Martin with Academy of American Poets — Begins June 23rd // $150 with scholarships available

• Social Impact Filmmaking with Juan Escobedo with Justice for My Sister — Wednesday, June 23rd from 6:00 to 9:00 PM PT // $15.99

• Summer Fieldguide Workshop with School of Softness — Thursday, June 25th from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET // $22

• A Gentle Reset: Mid-Year Reflection with Passion Planner — Thursday, June 25th from 8:30 to 9:30 PM ET // Free

• Revolutionary Work by Embodied Black Girl — Begins Friday, June 26th // Sliding scale from $675 to $875

• Found Forms: Writing with Photos, Ephemera, and Fragments with Permission to Write — Saturday, June 27th from 12:00 to 2:00 PM ET // $60

• un/writing nature: anti-imperialist and transnational poetics for a just future panel with Abode Press — Saturday, June 27th from 5:00 to 6:00 PM CT // $15

• Remote Crip Film Club: We Year by Sop with Filmmaker Q&A with RestFest Film Festival — June 28th from 10:00 to 11:30 AM PT // Pay-what-you-can from $1 with scholarships available

• PARK & WRITE June Co-Writing with Literary Liberation — Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays in June // $35 to $95

• phytocene’s Release Party and Concert Broadcast — July 4th, 5th, or 6th // 15€

• Reading Group: Talking with Toni with GrubStreet — Begins July 12th // $190 with scholarships available

• Writing Body and Desire with Dr. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan with Blue Stoop — July 15th from 6:30 to 8:30 PM ET // $50 with financial aid available

• Verse Chorus Voice with Sadie Dupuis with Blue Stoop — July 16th from 6:30 to 8:30 PM ET // $50 with financial aid available

• Reading Group: Happily Ever After with GrubStreet — Begins July 23rd // $190 with scholarships available

• Job Support Group w/ Keely Cat-Wells with Making Space — Every second Monday at 4:00 PM PT // Free

Online Opportunities 🛋

Fellowships, jobs, programs, and more

• Voodoonauts Fellowship Retreat 2026: Afro-Whimsy — Apply by June 18th.

• Writing the Lyric Essay: A Writing Workshop with Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams with Orion Magazine — Apply by June 20th.

• Alchemy of Inner Voice: A Monthly Live Virtual Qigong Series with Gentle Mothh of Amahh Studio — Apply by June 30th.

• From Script to Screens: Writing Your Micro-Series with Sundance Collab — Apply by July 2nd.

• Disabled Ecologies Almanac Submissions with Disabled Ecologies — Submit by October 15th.

• Read Like a Writer Summer Book Club with Permission to Write

• Open Submission Call with Literary Liberation

Remote Resources 📘

Support and info for these pandemic times

• Pillow Writers Meetings, for people with ME/CFS or Long Covid

• My loneliness is killing me from M (is) Living with Long Covid

• The Black Grief Project

• Spirited Away Masked Coloring Sheet from mx.papaya

• Signal Security Checklist from Activist Checklist

• June [Pride] Newsletter from HomeGrown Visions Arts Collaborative

• Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Kills: A group exhibition from A Quiet Storm: An Online Gallery

• Creative Access Toolkit for Visual Arts Organisations from Plus Tate

• What Is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Like?: Patient and Caregiver Perspectives, a new book from WIMEL Writers

• Kids’ Zone Covid-Conscious Magazine Issue 20, Journeying Through Summer: Safety Edition from World Health Network

• Queers on Wheels e-Book from Cripping Up Sex

• Community Pulse from World Health Network

• Disability Ecologies, an audio documentary from Emerson Cram

• 2026 Lambda Literary Awards Livestream from Lambda Literary

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.

🔍 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

• How to Think About Money Less: a compassionate budgeting workshop with Be Intentional Finance — May 31st at 11:00 AM ET // $0-$100

• Pride Camp with FOLX — June 1st through 30th // Free

• Writing POV: Mastering Perspective, Voice & Narrative Control with Reedsy — June 1st from 3:00 to 4:00 PM ET // $18

• When We Are Kin: The History and Future of Afro-Indigenous Solidarity with Haymarket Books — Monday, June 1st from 5:00 to 6:30 PM ET // Free

• Ode to Fiction Writing Series with The Garden Salon — Begins June 1st // $60- $125

• WHN Town Hall: Ebola Update with World Health Network — June 2nd at 1:00 PM ET // Free

• Body-Based Trauma Work: Strength and Mobility with FORGE — June 2nd from 1:00 to 2:30 PM CT // Free

• Shame Writing Series with The Garden Salon — Begins June 2nd // $60- $125

• “Submit It!” Submission Jam with Literary Liberation — June 3rd at 12:00 PM ET // Free

• Get Empowered: Boundaries and Self-Defense for Trans and Nonbinary Communities with FORGE — June 4th from 5:30 to 7:30 PM CT // Free

• Neurodivergent Pride Panel with Shimmer — Thursday, June 4th from 6:00 to 7:00 PM ET // Free

• Asian American Mental Health and Disability Studies with Asian American Literary Archive — Begins Thursday, June 4th // $349

• Virtual Summer Retreat with Abode Press — Begins June 7th // $175 for All Access Lecture Pass

• Essays in Black Feminist Theory in the United States with Dr. Margarita Lila Rosa — Begins June 7th // $45

• Writing with Vulnerability and Creative Courage Zoom Seminar with GG Renee Hill with WritingWorkshops.com — Sunday, June 7th from 3:00 to 6:00 PM ET // $99

• Instant Book Club: Fiction with Blue Stoop — Tuesday, June 9th from 6:00 to 7:00 PM ET // Free

• Radical Possibility: How Climate Fiction Can Create Better Futures with Grist — Wednesday, June 10th from 11:00 to 12:00 PM ET // Free

• Trans Talk Peer Support with Los Angeles Spoonie Collective — June 10th from 6:00 to 7:30 PM PT // Free

• Writing Embodied Ecologies: A Black Feminist Multispecies Approach with Abode Press — June 10th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM CT // $25

• MELT ICE Series: Disability Justice is Immigrant Justice! with New Disabled South and Detention Watch Network — Thursday, June 11th from 12:00 to 1:30 PM PT / 3:00 to 4:30 PM ET // Free

• ⚡ZINE LUNCH!⚡with Traci Brimhall with Sarabande Books — Friday, June 12th at 12:00 PM ET // Free

• CHIRP, a livestreamed play reading with FRIGID New York — June 12th at 7:00 PM ET and June 19th at 9:00 PM ET // $20 or pay what you can with a minimum of $7

• Beyond Pleasure: What a Sex Scene Can Do with Mac Crane with McCormack Writing Center — Sunday, June 14th from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM PT // $75 with one scholarship available

• Publishing Program Information Session with Anaphora Arts — Wednesday, June 17th at 10:00 AM PT // Free

• a series of intersections: Black + queer + ancestors + legacy with tune.of.blackness. — Thursday, June 18th at 2:00 PM ET // Free

• Friends Help Friends Have Abortions: a Radical Mental Health First Aide Micro Workshop with Ja'Loni with Oumou— Thursday, June 18th from 2:00 to 4:00 PM CT / 3:00 to 5:00 PM ET // pay as you can with full value of $80

• The Ins and Outs of Book Proposals with Edgar Gomez with McCormack Writing Center — Sunday, June 21st from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM PT // $75

• afroludix with manuel arturo abreu and Ryan C. Clarke — Begins Saturday, June 27th // Sliding scale from $0 to $1500

• Virtual Launch for Art, Anti-Capitalism and Accessibility Zine with Steel Transplants — June 28th from 2:00 to 3:00 PM ET // Free

• Queer ASL Classes — June through August

• How to Write a Personal Essay with GrubStreet — July 11th from 10:30 to 1:30 PM ET // $85 with scholarships available

• Instant Book Club: Poetry with Blue Stoop — Tuesday, July 14th from 6:00 to 7:00 PM ET // Free

• Instant Book Club: Nonfiction with Blue Stoop — Tuesday, August 11th from 6:00 to 7:00 PM ET // Free

Online Opportunities 🛋

Fellowships, jobs, programs, and more

• HRT Access Fund with Point of Pride — Apply by May 31st.

• World Mask Week 2026 digital zine with Celebrate845 — Submit by June 1st.

• Write It Out! Fellowship with Write It Out! — Apply by June 19th.

• Apprenticeship Program with The Feminist Press — Apply by June 26th.

• Illuminations Grant for Black Trans Women Visual Artists with Queer | Art — Apply by July 2nd.

• Film and Video Artwork Submissions with RestFest Film Festival — Submit by August 28th.

• Mentorship Office Hours with GrubStreet

• Publishing Program with Anaphora Arts

Remote Resources 📘

Support and info for these pandemic times

• Indie Bookstores Promoting Masking and Covid Consciousness in 2026 from WhoEvenReads.com

• Andes Hantavirus Outbreak Town Hall with Barry Hunt and Eric Feigl-Ding from World Health Network

• Kids’ Zone Covid-Conscious Magazine: Issue 22, The New Growth Edition from World Health Network

• STORM, a Long COVID documentary from Shari Dyer

• 2026 Student Loan Update: RAP explained in plain English from Queer and Trans Wealth

• Trans Rights Readathon 2026 from The StoryGraph

• Questioning AI Resource List

• Black Women Directors: A Digital Library

• Communication & Capacity Support Tool: How to Practice Offering Support while also Honoring Your Capacity and Boundaries from Jasmin Ariel

• Art, Anti-Capitalism and Accessibility Zine from Steel Transplants

• Rural-Urban Unity: A New Narrative Framework from Narrative Initiative

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.

🔍 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.

🔍 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

• Accessible Producing in Practice with Miranda Debenham with CRIPticArts — Tuesday, April 21st from 1:30 to 3:00 PM ET // Free

• Go Bag Training on Emergency Preparedness for Trans Folx with Garden State Equality — Thursday, April 23rd from 6:00 to 7:00 PM ET // Free

• Foundations for Cooperation in the Solidarity Economy with Solidarity Economy Principles — Thursdays, April 23rd, May 21st and June 25th at 4:00 PM PT // Sliding scale from $20 to $200

• ReelAbilities Film Festival: New York with ReelAbilities— April 24th through May 3rd // $19.95 per ticket

• Table It: How to Apply to Zine & Art Book Fairs with Black Zine Fair — Saturday, April 25th at 12:00 PM ET // $5 to $20

• PENUMBRA: an online fundraiser in benefit of thái Lu with Sick in Quarters — April 25th at 12:00 PM PT // By donation of $5 to $15+.

• April Poetry Xfit with Sundress Academy for the Arts — Sunday, April 26th from 2:00 to 4:00 PM ET // Free

• Every Fire Needs a Little Bit of Help with Firestorm Books — Sunday, April 26th from 2:00 to 3:30 PM ET // Free

• Unicorn Publication Party ft. Beth Howard, M. K. Thekkumkattil, & Mathangi Subramanian! with Unicorn Authors Club — April 28th at 8:00 PM ET // Free

• April Late Night Virtual Screenwriting Workshop with Black Film Space — Thursday, April 30th from 10:00 PM to 12:00 AM ET // $15

• 2026 Job Liberation Virtual Summit for Black Women — May 1st through 3rd // $77

• Justice: The Story of André Aliker with Black Zine Fair — Saturday, May 2nd at 12:00 PM ET // $5 to $20

• Max & Snax: Our Flag Means Death Live with Samba Schutte with Momentus — May 2nd at 10:00 AM PT // $25

• Gender-Expansive Pregnancy with Firestorm Books — Saturday, May 2nd from 6:00 to 8:30 PM ET // Free

• Zine Making for the Web with Black Zine Fair — Sunday, May 3rd at 12:00 PM ET // $5 to $20

• Listening for the Long Haul Launch Event — Wednesday, May 6th from 4:30 to 6:00 PM ET // Free

• Scrivener Secrets: The Perfect Refresher Course with Janine Kovac with The Writers Grotto — Saturday, May 9th from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM PT // $85.50 before May 2nd

• Journaling Freespace with The Constellation — May 13th at 6:30 PM CT // $7 suggested donation

• Writing to Re-member: An Introduction to Flash Prose with Los Angeles Spoonie Collective’s Crip Writers Collective — May 19th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM PT // Free

• Spell Check Virtual Book Launch with Red Sweater Press — May 26th at 08:00 PM ET // Free

• Invasive Species and Capitalism with Firestorm Books — Sunday, June 21st from 3:00 to 4:30 PM ET // Free

Online Opportunities 🛋

Fellowships, jobs, programs, and more

• Volume VI Submissions with Lampblack — Submit by April 20th.

• Finding Your Form When Writing About Food: A writing workshop with Kate Lebo with Orion Magazine — Apply by April 20th.

• Killing Darlings Writing Workshop Series with OMG! Studios — Apply by Thursday, April 30th. More information here.

• Critical Writing Open Call 2026 with Recess — Apply by April 30th.

• Focus Group Facilitators with American Association of People with Disabilities — Apply by May 8th.

• The Workshop with Seventh Wave — Apply by May 8th.

• COVID-Safe Summer Internship Program with World Health Network - Apply by May 15th.

• Radical Death Studies Fellows Program with The Collective for Radical Death Studies — Apply by May 15th. More information here.

• 2026 Undoing Internalized Ableism Cohort with PeoplesHub — Apply by May 15th.

• Thursdays on the Stoop Session Proposals with Blue Stoop

Remote Resources 📘

Support and info for these pandemic times

• 2026 Long COVID Fact Sheet from Patient-Led Research Collaborative

• Kids’ Zone Covid-Conscious Magazine: Issue 21, The Masked and the Marvelous Edition from World Health Network

• Understanding Long Covid in Children & Young People Resources from Long Covid Kids

• Listening for the Long Haul: A Long COVID Oral History Project

• Q2 Resource Roundup (2026) from Black Remote She

• A Political Hope Zine: Artists and Creators on Building Hope from The Center for Transformational Change

• dis_place Digital Gallery from Disability Arts Online

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.

🔍 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!

Action Alerts 🔔

Steps to support a better world

• Contribute to Deaf and Disabled Palestinian Fundraisers.

Virtual Events 🎟

Gatherings that are either fully online or hybrid with an online option

• Thursdays on the Stoop: Let Your Inner Child Build Worlds with Blue Stoop — Thursday, April 9th from 4:00 to 5:00 PM ET // Free

• Understanding and Transforming the Medical Industrial Complex: Climate and Disability Justice Edition with Health Justice Commons — Thursdays from April 9th to May 14th // Sliding scale from $195 to $350 with scholarships available

• BE BLACK DO MAGIC: A Whimsically Black LGBTQ Social with @soenoire — Friday, April 10th at 7:00 PM ET // Free

• Friday Night YIN YOGA for Burnout with Sammie Nokes — Friday, April 10th at 7:00 PM ET // Suggest donation of $30+

• Queer Breath Time with Sammie Nokes — Saturday, April 11th at 10:00 AM ET // Suggested donation of $15+

• April Crip Arts Gathering with RestFest Film Festival — Saturday, April 11th from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM PT // Pay-what-you-can with tiered levels

• COVID Community Grief Space with Forest Floor Findings — Saturday, April 11th from 12:00 to 1:30 PM PT // Sliding scale with suggested donation of $15

• The Craft of Disruption / Writing the Rupture with Abode Press — Saturday, April 11th from 12:00 to 2:00 PM CT // $25 with reduced tickets available for writers in need

• Welcome, Spring: Queer, Fat Virtual Dance Party with Ample Movement and Eugene Radical Mental Health Collective — Saturday, April 11th at 1:00 PM PT / 4:00 PM ET // Free with donations welcome

• BOBBITYO 45/7 DJ Set Livestream with Positive Deviance NYC — Sunday, April 12th from 3:00 to 7:00 PM ET // By donation

• Sunday Yoga with Sammie Nokes — Sunday, April 12th at 4:00 PM ET // Suggested donation of $25

• The Art of Flow: Herbal Workshop for Detoxification, Emotional Release & Renewal with Sacred Vibes Apothecary — April 12th at 6:30 to 7:30 PM ET // $55

• Decolonial Sexuality Education with Your Empowered Sexuality! — Monday, April 13th from 7:00 to 8:30 PM ET // From $19.03

• Denial & Collective Care in the Age of Pandemics with Healing Justice LDN — Tuesday, April 14th from 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET // Free

• #MillionsMissing Storytelling Workshop with #MEAction — Tuesday, April 14th at 4:00 PM ET // Free. More information here.

• Inspire: A Performing Arts Festival by & for the Airborne Aware with The Guiness Pig Diaries — April 15th through 29th // Free

• Surveillance: What is It, How to Write It with Pipeline Artists — Wednesday, April 15th at 7:00 PM ET // $35

• #MillionsMissing Storytelling Workshop with #MEAction — Thursday, April 16th at 4:00 PM ET // Free. More information here.

• Dysunderstood Conference 2026 with Dysunderstood — April 19th at 12:00 PM ET // Free

• Fat Grief Space with Forest Floor Findings — Sunday, April 19th from 12:00 to 1:30 PM PT // Suggested payent of $5 to $15

• Writing the It Without the Ick: Personal Essays Editors Want to Publish — Sunday, April 19th at 4:00 to 5:30 PM ET // Free with book pre-order

• Dead Pilots Society with The Elysian — Sunday, April 19th from 2:00 to 4:00 PM PT // $15 for video on demand

• The Artist Must Take Sides: Culture & The Movement Past, Present & Future Course with The People’s Forum and Artists Against Apartheid — Tuesdays at 6:30 PM ET from April 21st to May 26th // Free

• Deconstructing Books for Craft and Marketability: Read Like a Writer with Pipeline Artists — Wednesday, April 22nd at 7:00 PM ET // $35

• FROS AND FAES - a whimsical virtual drag show with Frizz Media — Saturday, April 25th from 7:00 to 8:45 PM ET // $5.56 for early beds

• Writing Our Grief with Forest Floor Findings — Sunday, April 26th from 12:00 to 1:30 PM PT // Pay what you can with suggested payment of $5 to $15

• Reading Trancestors: A Trans History Book Club with The Nonbinarian Bookstore — Monday, April 27th at 7:00 PM ET // Free. More information here.

• Building a Powerful Query Letter with Pipeline Artists — Wednesday, April 29th at 7:00 PM ET // $35

• Virtual Art Studio: Belonging, Uniformity and Creating with Love, Builder of Worlds — Friday, May 1st from 2:00 to 4:00 PM ET // $5

• Writing Workshop for the Age of Emergency with Night School Bar — Saturdays, May 9th through 23rd // $300 with sliding scale options

• Disabled Trans Life, a workshop on living as a disabled trans person with @disabledtransjoy — May 16th from 1:00 to 2:15 PM CT // Sliding scale from $2 to $10. More information here.

Online Opportunities 🛋

Fellowships, jobs, programs, and more

• Taking Our Herbal T with wild aliveness apothecary — Apply by April 15th or until cohort is full.

• Budgeting for a World on Fire with Queer & Trans Wealth — Register by April 16th.

• 2026–27 Education Fellowship with Words Without Borders — Apply by April 17th.

• BIPOC Microgrants for Still COVIDing Creatives with The Sistas Uprising Fund — Apply by April 30th.

• Pandemic Anthologies Submissions with COVID Research Accessibility — Submit by May 17th. More information here.

Remote Resources 📘

Support and info for these pandemic times

• There’s a Pill That Can Protect You From HIV. So Why Aren’t Black Women Getting It? from Creighton Leigh

• You have Long COVID. What is it? And what are your next steps? from Creighton Leigh

• Have You Heard of Human Metapneumovirus (HMPV)? Well, wake up, babe, there’s another airborne virus you need to learn about. from Creighton Leigh

• Taking Our Herbal T Zine from Wild Current Herbalism

• How to Resist from National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee

• Two Long COVID short films premiere at the Easterseals Disability Film Challenge with The Sick Times

• March 2026 Newsletter - new art, events, opportunities and more! from Love, Builder of Worlds

• Disability Culture Currents

• Disability groups are standing united for trans rights. That hasn’t always been the case. with The 19th

• A room with enough room for us: Art and writing on care, disability and resistance from Molly Bonnell

• Renegade Research Clinician’s Roundtable: The Hidden Biology of IBS, with Zachary Spiritos, MD, MPH

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.

🔍 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!

Action Alerts 🔔

Steps to support a better world

• Tell the CDC that we need COVID vaccines for all.

• Join the boycott against Spotify.

• Sign this petition NYC to recognize International Long COVID Awareness Day.

Virtual Events 🎟

Gatherings that are either fully online or hybrid with an online option

• The Writers Room: Getting Staffed + Navigating Today's Industry with Black Film Space — TODAY from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET // $15

• Research Roundtable: Hypercoagulability, Clotting and Microclotting, and Blood Issues in MECFS and Long Covid with Renegade Research — March 13th at 1:00 PM ET // Free

• Reframing the Oscars with Film Reframed — Saturday, March 14th at 11:00 AM PT // Free

• Better Your Chances of Getting an Agent, Manager or Mentor with Pipeline Artists — Wednesday, March 18th at 1:00 PM ET // $35

• Karen Yin Talks About The Conscious Style Guide with Editorial Freelancers Association — Wednesday, March 18th at 3:00 PM ET // Free

• From Submission to Publication with Reedsy — March 19th from 11:00 to 1:00 PM ET // $49

• the intersection of Black + queer x spirituality + religion with tune.of.blackness — Thursday, March 19th at 2:00 PM ET // Free

• Virtual Tax Workshop for Artists with Leeway Foundation — Thursday, March 19th from 5:30 to 6:30 PM ET // Free

• Creating Your Own Momentum with In The Cut — March 21st from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM PT // $15

• California Long COVID + IACCI Clinical Implementation Forum with Chesley Initiative — March 21st from 1:30 to 5:30 PM PT // Free

• March Poetry Xfit with Sundress Academy for the Arts — Sunday, March 22nd from 2:00 to 4:00 PM ET // Free

• Proven Framework for Successful Collaboration with Pipeline Artists — Wednesday, March 25th at 7:00 PM ET // $35

• Ask-Me-Anything: Carolyn Kuebler, Editor of New England Review with Chill Subs — Wednesday, March 25th from 7:30 to 8:30 PM ET // Free

• Fast Fuel Micro-Retreat with FORGE NYC — Thursday, March 26th from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM ET // Free

• March Virtual Screenwriting Workshop with Black Film Space — Thursday, March 26th from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET // $15

• Aliah Sheffield Livestream Concert — March 29th at 8:00 PM CT // Starting at $1 with a $0.01 increase after each sale

• Reflect & Reset: A Quarterly Reflection with Passion Planner — Thursday, April 2nd from 8:30 to 9:30 PM ET // Free

• Virtual EFA Conference with Editorial Freelancers Association — June 26th and 27th // $120

Online Opportunities 🛋

Fellowships, jobs, programs, and more

• Screenwriting Accountability Group with Black Film Space — Sign up by March 29th.

• Creative Capital Grant with Creative Capital for Artists — Apply by April 2nd.

• BREATHE: a virtual support group for LGBTQ+ survivors of sexual violence with Anti-Violence Project — Begins April 14th.

• Trans/Nonbinary Writing Retreat Fellowships with Sundress Academy for the Arts — Apply by May 1st.

• Academic Fellowship with The Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies — Apply by May 1st for full consideration.

• Part-Time Talent Sourcer with HJ Consulting

Remote Resources 📘

Support and info for these pandemic times

• Comic: Reasons to wear a mask in 2026 from The Sick Times

• Kids’ Zone Covid-Conscious Magazine: Issue 20 from World Health Network

• How to write an op-ed about Long COVID from The Sick Times

• Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border from Haymarket Books

• Q1 Resource Roundup from Black Remote She

• Accessible Lines: accessible illustrations in the voices of the illustrators

• Digital Kinship: Disabled and/or chronically ill South Asian Americans on finding community from South Asian American Digital Archive

• Overlooked tax write-offs for solopreneurs from Queer & Trans Wealth

• unconsenting media: a search engine for sexual violence in broadcasting

• East African Queer and Trans Displacements, open access e-book

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.

🔍 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

• Directing Actors: Practical Tools for Writers and Emerging Directors with Pipeline Artists — Wednesday, March 4th at 7:00 PM ET // $35

• Disabled Parenting Panel with Disability Cultural Center — Thursday, March 5th from 4:00 to 5:30 PM PT // Free

• Selling a TV Drama Pilot with In the Cut — March 7th from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM PT // $15

• Crafting a Writing Sample with In the Cut — Begins March 7th // $450

• No Such Thing as Writer's Block with UGBA — Sunday, March 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th from 10:00 to 12:00 PM ET // $40 for all four sessions or $15 each

• Cryptids: On the Trail of Bigfoot and Other Improbable Beasts with Orion and Literary Hub — March 11th at 2:00 PM ET // Free

• 10 Questions to Figure Out What Your Memoir is REALLY About with Pipeline Artists — Wednesday, March 11th at 7:00 PM ET // $35

• Anxious Queers Care Circle with Disability Cultural Center — Wednesday, March 11th from 5:00 to 6:30 PM PT // Free

• The Writers Room: Getting Staffed + Navigating Today’s Industry with Black Film Space — Thursday, March 12th from 7:00 to 8:30 PM ET // $15

• Heated Piracy with Con O’Neill & Samba Schutte with Momentus — March 14th at 10:00 AM PT // $30

• Body Poetics: A Poetry Workshop with Abode Press — Sunday, March 15th from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT // $25 with limited $10 tickets for writers-in-need

• Tiny Wonders: Conserving Hummingbirds Across the Americas with American Bird Conservancy — Wednesday, March 25th from 4:00 to 5:00 PM ET // Free

Online Opportunities 🛋

Fellowships, jobs, programs, and more

• Indie Institute with Antigravity Academy — Starts March 22nd.

• Writing Bootcamp with Anaphora Arts — Apply by March 30th.

• Manuscript Mart with GrubStreet — Register by April 7th.

• Issue 02: Tearjerkers with Soft Focus: A Movie Zine — Submit by May 1st.

• Admin Coordinator with Undead Voice

• Remote Jobs with Outdoor Afro

Remote Resources 📘

Support and info for these pandemic times

• COVID Consciousness as a Subculture from Positive Deviance NYC

• Black Film Archive

• How to start a susu fund from Queer & Trans Wealth

• How to protest ICE with your tax dollars from Queer & Trans Wealth

• Black Radical Tradition Reading List from Cal State LA University Library

• How to start saving for retirement from Queer & Trans Wealth

• misery meals: a crip community anti-cookbook for when eating and cooking is hard from Misery Party

• Pisces Season Prompts from Literary Liberation

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.

🔍 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

• Sunday Stitch Club with Hang In Events — Sunday, February 8th from 2:00 to 4:00 PM ET // Free

• February Co-Writing Sessions with Ariana Brown — Begins Monday, February 9th // $5/month subscription

• Publishing in Audio: What You Need to Know in 2026 with Reedsy — February 10th from 3:00 to 5:00 PM ET // $49

• Board Game Evening with Hang In Events — Tuesday, February 10th from 8:00 to 9:30 PM ET // Free

• Love Hurts: Writing the Break-up Poem with Sundress Academy for the Arts — Wednesday, February 11th from 6:00 to 7:30 PM ET // Free with donations welcome

• Earthly Love: A Conversation with Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil with Orion Magazine — February 12th at 12:00 PM ET // Free

• Global Cinema Meetup: Hasan Hadi on Making THE PRESIDENT’S CAKE with Sundance Collab — Thursday, February 12th from 1:00 to 2:30 PM ET // Free

• A Crafty Hang In with Hang In Events — Friday, February 13th from 8:00 to 9:30 PM ET // Free

• Touch Back: a touch score workshop (w/ moira williams) with RestFest Film Festival — February 15th at 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET // Pay-what-you-can from $1 with full scholarships available

• Filmmaker Panel: Space / Routes Program with RestFest Film Festival — February 16th at 3:30 PM PT / 6:30 PM ET // Free with optional donation

• Get It Done Group with Hang In Events — February 16th at 7:00 PM ET // Free

• Inside/Outside: A writing workshop on form (w/ Char Heather) with RestFest Film Festival — February 18th at 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET // $15 to $25 with full scholarships available

• The Art of Pitching with Pipeline Artists — Wednesday, February 18th at 7:00 PM ET // $35

• Unearthing Character Through Casting with Richard Hicks with Sundance Collab — Thursday, February 19th from 1:00 to 2:00 PM ET // $10

• Virtual Book Reading with Shalida A. Askanazi with ME Action — February 20th from 3:00 to 4:00 PM ET // Free

• Video Game “Spoon City”: Showcasing Disabled Narrative through Play (w/ Anna Waite) with RestFest Film Festival — February 20th at 12:00 PM PT / 3:00 PM ET // Pay-what-you-can from $4 with full scholarships available

• Filmmaker Panel: Rumbling Program with RestFest Film Festival — February 21st at 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET // Free with optional donation

• How to Write Relationships with GrubStreet — February 21st from 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM ET // $85 with scholarships available

• Reclaiming Our Time: Turning to Land, Our Bodies & Ancestors (BIPOC-only) with The Rewilding — Saturday, February 21st from 1:00 to 4:00 PM ET // $50 - $100 with 1 free spot for BIPOC

• Character Driven: A Workshop with Katherin Garland with Literary Liberation — Saturday, February 21st from 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET // $99 with discounts for subscribers

• Autistic Architectural Approach: Starting in Disability as a Generative Force, Artist Talk & Discussion with Troels Steenholdt Heiredal with RestFest Film Festival — February 21st at 2:30 PM PT / 5:30 PM ET // Pay-what-you-can from $5 with full scholarships available

• Soft Launch with One Click Events — February 21st from 1:00 to 4:00 PM CT // Free

• February Poetry Xfit with Sundress Academy for the Arts — Sunday, February 22nd from 2:00 to 4:00 PM ET // Free with donations welcome

• The Autistic Camera: a workshop & artist talk w/ Georgia Kumari Bradburn with RestFest Film Festival — February 22nd at 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET // $5 to $30 with full scholarships available

• Filmmaker Panel: Mid-Air / Suspended Program with RestFest Film Festival — February 23 at 11am PT / 2pm ET // Free, optional donation

• Tuesday Trivia Night with Hang In Events — Tuesday, February 24th from 8:00 to 9:15 PM ET // Free

• Thanks for the Memories: Zine-making workshop reflecting on RestFest Film Festival 2026 (w/ Francis Tomkins) with RestFest Film Festival — February 27 at 11am PT / 2pm ET // Pay-what-you-can from $7 with full scholarships available

• Screening / Q&A: of Collective Film from Processing Pandemic Grief Together workshop (w/ Kit Blamire) with RestFest Film Festival — February 28 at 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET // Free with optional donation

• Reclaiming Our Time: Turning to Land, Our Bodies, & Ancestors with The Rewilding — Saturday, February 28th from 1:00 to 4:00 PM ET // $50 - $100

• Silent Reading & Social Hour with One Click Events — February 28th from 1:00 to 3:00 PM CT // Free

• WGF x Business of Creating - Independent Production in Today’s World of Studio Consolidation with The Writers Guild Foundation — Tuesday, March 3rd from 7:00 to 8:30 PM PT // $25

• Snakes and Spirals: Using Repetition in Poetry with Blue Stoop — Begins March 11th // $200 with financial aid available

• Death on the Page: Elegy as Memento Mori with Blue Stoop — Begins March 12th // $200 with financial aid available

Online Opportunities 🛋

Fellowships, jobs, programs, and more

• Elbaum Resident Writers Program with Convergence Magazine — Apply by February 15th.

• Workshop Proposals with Literary Liberation — Submit by February 28th.

• Freedom Ways: A Call for Essays with Literary Liberation — Submit by March 1st.

• Virtual Criminal Queerness Studio with National Queer Theater — Apply by March 2nd.

• Rooted & Written Conference with The Writers Grotto — Apply by March 6th.

Remote Resources 📘

Support and info for these pandemic times

• Virtual Art Gallery for Meeting Points, Rae Lanzerotti’s 2026 art show at the San Francisco Disability Cultural Center

• RestFest Film Festival, films available on-demand in February

• Dealing with Grief and Chronic Illness: A Workshop with Marisa Renee Lee from The ME Action Network

• Intro to CO2 Monitoring with It’s Airborne

• things i do to make wearing a mask easier as an autistic person from @candy.courn

• Kids’ Zone Covid-Conscious Magazine: Issue 19 from World Health Network

• Covid for Doctors from Dr. Nancy Malek

• Drawing the elephant: Nine artists illustrating Long COVID and the ongoing pandemic from The Sick Times

• Canary in the Coal Mine: Long Covid in Fiction with Who Even Reads

• Health Fascism and the Anti-State State Podcast Episode with Death Panel

• 100 Black Voices: Schomburg Centennial Reading List

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.

🔍 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!

Action Alerts 🔔

Steps to support a better world

• Learn How To Help if You are Outside Minnesota.

• Check out these Resources for Creative Troublemakers in and beyond Minnesota.

• Fill out this Covid Conscious Communities Survey.

Virtual Events 🎟

Gatherings that are either fully online or hybrid with an online option

• Thursdays on the Stoop: How to Find a Story Worth Telling with Blue Stoop — Thursday, January 29th from 4:00 to 5:00 PM ET // Free

• Access Playground Vol.1 with Infinite Flow Dance — Thursday, January 29th from 7:00 to 8:30 PM ET // $41 to $104 including fees

• How to Fest (w/ RestFest Film Festival Founder, Bec Miriam) with RestFest Film Festival — January 31st at 12:00 PM PT / 3:00 PM ET // Free with optional donation

• Da Black Queers Be Writing - Spring Sessions with HomeGrown Visions Arts Collaborative — January through May // Free

• Beloved: How to Write a Love Letter with Yasmine Ameli — Sunday, February 1st from 2:00 to 5:00 PM ET // $100 - $150

• The Mind of Soil: Soil Chemistry with The Soil Keepers with Social Ecologies— Begins February 1st // $440 including fees

• Filmmaker Panel: Inside / Outside Program with RestFest Film Festival — February 2nd at 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET // Free with optional donation

• Creative Coworking with Blue Stoop — Wednesday, February 4th from 3:30 to 5:30 PM ET // Free

• Thursdays on the Stoop: Outspoken—Reading for an Audience with Blue Stoop — Thursday, February 5th from 4:00 to 5:00 PM ET // Free

• Polish Like a Pro: Self-Editing Strategies for Aspiring Authors with Pipeline Artists — Wednesday, February 4th at 7:00 PM ET // $35

• LARB Publishing Workshop 2026 Information Sessions with Los Angeles Review of Books — February 5th through 17th // Free

• NEW YEAR / NEW PLAYS: Adaptation Masterclass with Lauren Gunderson — February 7th from 1:00 to 3:30 PM ET // $40 to $80.21

• dreaming our futures + embodying our dreams: a crip ritual opera (w/ alexa dexa) with RestFest Film Festival — February 7th at 12:00 PM PT / 3:00 PM ET // Pay-what-you-can with a suggested price of $3 to $33

• EQUITY: A Virtual Staged Reading with Ongoing Pandemic Theater — Saturday, February 7th from 4:00 to 5:45 PM ET // Pay-what-you-can with a suggested donation of $10

• Visual Poetry: multidimensional technologies for expression and access (w/ Lohitha Kethu) with RestFest Film Festival — February 8th at 10:00 AM PT / 1:00 PM ET // Tiered pricing from $6 to $25, full scholarships available upon request

• Filmmaker Panel: Reverberation / Held Program with RestFest Film Festival — February 9th at 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET // Free with optional donation

• Experimental Analog Filmmaking & Eco-processing: Artist Talk with Brittney Appleby with RestFest Film Festival — February 11th at 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET // Sliding scale from $5 to $15, full scholarships available upon request

• Awakening Liberation: Anti-Oppressive Counseling for Collective Healing with GoodWerk Counseling — February 11th at 6:30 PM ET // Free

• Crip Film Club (co-presented w/ the remote body) with RestFest Film Festival — February 12th at 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET // Pay-what-you-can beginning at $1, full scholarships available

• Free Love Story Generator with GrubStreet — February 12th from 6:00 to 7:00 PM ET // Free

• Shape the Future Art & Writing Salon: A Revolution of Love with Intelligent Mischief — Saturday, February 14th from 6:00 to 8:30 PM ET // Sliding scale from $22 to $55

• Trans-gressing Genre and Community Filmmaking: a conversation w/ Transgender filmmakers Sammy Holden & Althea Eccles with RestFest Film Festival — February 14th at 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET // Pay-what-you-can beginning at $4, full scholarships available

• Neuroqueer Lyric Workshop with The Remote Body — Friday, February 20th at 2:30 PM ET // £5.00 to £20.00

• Indigenous perspectives on decolonizing death care: Speaking back to colonial oppressions with A Sacred Passing — February 21st from 12:00 to 1:30 PM PT // Free

• Fear/Desire: Writing Queer Erotic Horror That Subverts with Abode Press — Sunday, February 22nd from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT // $25+ with $10 for writers in need

• Unpolitics Working Meeting 2026A — February 23rd through 27th from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM ET // Free

• Art Writing, Writing Art with Katie Kitamura with GrubStreet — February 26th from 6:00 to 7:30 PM ET // $35 with scholarships available

• The Body of Soil: Soil Geology with The Soil Keepers with Social Ecologies — Begins March 8th // Starting at $405 including fees

• Snakes and Spirals: Using Repetition in Poetry with Blue Stoop — Begins March 11th // $200 with financial aid available

• 30 Days / 30 Poems with Yasmine Ameli — Begins Saturday, March 28th // $450 to $550

Online Opportunities 🛋

Fellowships, jobs, programs, and more

• Spring Satire Workshop with Diverse as F**K x The Onion — Apply by January 30th.

• Last Huzzah Cohort with Unicorn Authors Club — Apply by February 10th.

• 2026 Virtual Summer Retreat with Abode Press — Apply by March 7th.

• Autism Campus Inclusion (ACI) Leadership Academy with Austistic Self Advocacy Network — Apply by Sunday, March 8th.

• Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing Workshop — Apply by March 15th.

• Rest Craft Conjure Fellowship with jaamil olawale kosoko — Apply by March 15th.

• Crip Book Club

Remote Resources 📘

Support and info for these pandemic times

• "What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition", zine from Hazel Newlevant

• Kids’ Zone Covid-Conscious Magazine: Issue 18 from World Health Network

• DUAL: The True Cost of Care from New Disabled South

• I Still Wear A Mask Every Day, And Here’s What I Wish The Rest Of The World Would Understand from Jada Gomez

• How Universities Are Shutting Out Disabled Students and Staff from Lygia Navarro

• The Free Black Women’s Library Reading Challenge 2026

• Directory of Open Access Books

• At the intersection of eating disorders & money from Queer & Trans Wealth

• WGFestival 2025 Recordings from The Writers Guild Foundation

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.

🔍 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

• Navigate Life Using Intuition with Arden Intuition — January 17th at 1:00 PM PT / 4:00 PM ET // $25 to $59

• Queer Grief Club Pet Loss with Queer Grief Club — Tuesday, January 20th from 5:30 to 7:30 PM PT // Sliding scale from $0 to $15

• Playing Ourselves: Game Theory, Identity, & Digital Belonging with GoodWerk Counseling — January 21st at 6:30 PM ET // Free

• Fast Fuel Micro-Retreat with FORGE NYC — Thursday, January 22nd from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM ET // Free

• Unruly, Ungovernable, Unfathomable Poetry: A Workshop with Split This Rock — January 22nd from 6:30 to 8:00 PM ET // $30-$100

• Silent Reading & Social Hour with One Click Events — Saturday, January 24th from 1:00 to 3:00 PM CT // Free

• Black Women Writer’s Write-in: January Speculative Edition with Midnight & Indigo — Saturday, January 24th from 9:00 to 11:00 AM ET // $29

• Queer Grief Club with Queer Grief Club — Monday, January 26th from 5:30 to 7:30 PM PT // Sliding scale from $0 to $15

• Navigate Life Using Intuition with Arden Intuition — January 29th at 6:00 PM PT / 9:00 PM ET // $25 to $59

• Teachers as Writers with Inprint — Begins Thursday, January 29th // $35

• Black Women Writer’s Story Lab with Midnight & Indigo — Sunday, February 1st from 1:00 to 3:30 PM ET // $99

• Playwriting as Activism for Black Women Writers with Midnight & Indigo — Begins February 4th // $249

• Caring for Ourselves: Feminist and Anti-Racist Philosophies of Health with Night School Bar — Begins Thursday, February 5th // Sliding scale from $25 to $380

• Speculative Fiction and Ancestral Exploration with Midnight & Indigo — Begins Tuesday, February 10th // $269

• Process & Play Space for Full-length Projects with Reinventing Creative Process — Begins Sunday, February 15th // Sliding scale from $300 to $700 with payment plans, a full scholarship, and reduced rates available

• What a B*tch! How to Create Complex Black Women Villains with Midnight & Indigo — Begins Wednesday, February 18th // $159

Online Opportunities 🛋

Fellowships, jobs, programs, and more

• Communications and Media Coordinator with Amphibian and Reptile Conservancy — Apply by January 16th.

• Podcast and Social Media Producer with The Sick Times — Apply by January 20th.

• Black Trans Play Development Lab with HomeGrown Visions Arts Collaborative — Apply by January 23rd.

• Read / Write / Study Group: Languaging / Trans with Jadine (JD) Pluecker — Apply by January 23rd.

• National Disability Leadership Series with Westchester Institute for Human Development — Apply by February 15th.

• Director and Actors Database for Black Trans Play Development Lab with HomeGrown Visions Arts Collaborative

Remote Resources 📘

Support and info for these pandemic times

• How to Protest with ME and Other Energy-Limiting Chronic Diseases from #MEAction

• The Peaceful Payoff Plan from Sareeta Lopez, a free debt payoff worksheet

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.

🔍 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. A new submission form will appear in the new year!

📚 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

• Sick Ancestor Tribute Show with Recess Art — TODAY, December 20th at 7:00 PM ET // Free

• Queer Breath Time with Sammie James — Saturday, December 27th at 10:00 AM ET // Free with contributions welcome

• Sacred Pause: a workshop for artists at the threshold of a new year with Reinventing Creative Process — Sunday, January 4th from 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM MT // Sliding scale from $0 to $75

• No Such Thing as Writer's Block with UGBA — January 4th, 11th, 18th, and 25th from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET // $15 each or $40 for all four

• ADHD Coworking Session with ADHD Collective — Wednesday, January 7th at 2:00 PM ET // Free

• Practices of Refusal and Hope Mini-Course for Academics with On Queer Time — Fridays, January 9th, 16th, and 23rd from 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET // Sliding scale from €15 to €255

• WGF Library Script Breakdown with HAMNET’s Chloé Zhao and Maggie O’Farrell with The Writers Guild Foundation — Wednesday, January 14th from 8:00 to 9:30 AM PT // Free or with suggested donation of $10

• The Manuscript Series Retreat with Permission to Write — January 16th through 18th // $149 - $199

• DIY Investing 101 Workshop with Be Intentional Financial — Sunday, January 18th at 11:00 AM ET // Sliding scale from $10 to $100

• Worker Writing Workshop with Notes from Below and the Marxism & Disability Network — January 21st from 1:00 to 2:30 PM ET // Free

• Novel Immersive for LGBTQ+ Writers Info Session with GrubStreet — January 21st from 6:30 to 7:30 PM ET // Free

• Braided Essay with Westport Writers’ Workshop — Begins January 22nd // $450

• Sick & Disabled Showcase Virtual Poetry Reading with Split This Rock — February 5th from 6:30 to 8:00 PM ET // $5 to $20

• Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference: Oppositions — May 28th through 30th // $75+

Online Opportunities 🛋

Fellowships, jobs, programs, and more

• Remote Managing Editor with Microcosm Publishing — Apply by January 4th.

• Call for Presenters for Creativity in These Times: Dance & Disability with the National Dance Education Organization — Submit by January 5th.

• 2026 Writers Retreat for Emerging LGBTQ Voices with Lambda Literary — Apply by January 8th.

• Open Call for QTBIPOC Disabled Virtual Dancers with Vanessa Hernández Cruz — Apply by January 16th.

• Call for Submissions for “Blackness, Queerness, and Nature” with The Lupine Collaborative — Submit by March 1st.

• Curriculum Job Openings with Meadowlark Learning

• COVID-Conscious Kids’ Zone Magazine Submissions with World Health Network

Remote Resources 📘

Support and info for these pandemic times

• Covid-Conscious Community Care Catalogue

• How Not to Give or Get COVID for Christmas from World Health Network

• Mail-A-Book Service from Queens Public Library

• I Miss My Cafe

• Silent Battles Book Club

• Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together by Dean Spade, available at The Anarchist Library

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.

🔍 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, please check back in the new year!

📚 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

• Yeah, It Was Good! Showcase Celebrating Audio Described Dance with Dark Room Ballet — Saturday, December 13th from 4:00 to 6:00 PM ET // Free

• Nevertheless We Persist Virtual Benefit Concert — December 14th at 6:00 PM PT // Free with donations welcome

• Get Inside Their Heads: Bring Your Character’s Interior World to Life with Reedsy — December 15th from 3:00 to 4:00 PM ET // $19

• The Year-End Unwind: Joy, Reflection & Community with GoodWerk Counseling — December 17th at 6:00 PM ET // Free

• Long Distance Polyamory with HG Wyndell — Wednesday, December 17th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM PT // $33.23+

• Fat Grief Space with Forest Floor Findings — Sunday, December 21st from 12:00 to 1:30 PM PT // Pay what you can with suggested payment of $5 to $10

• Writing Our Grief with Forest Floor Findings — Sunday, December 28th from 12:00 to 1:30 PM PT // Pay what you can with suggested payment of $5 to $10

• The Urgent Hybrid Cinema of Kaouther Ben Hania (THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB) with Sundance Collab — Tuesday, January 6th from 6:00 to 7:00 PM ET // Free

• Writing a Great Screenplay and Building a Career with Sundance Collab — Thursday, January 8th from 5:00 to 6:00 PM ET // $10

• Mastering Film Festival Q&As and Audience Engagement with Sundance Collab — Friday, January 9th from 1:00 to 2:00 PM ET // $10

• Specificity is Universality: How to Make Your Personal Story A Universal One with The Writers Guild Foundation — Friday, January 9th from 7:00 to 8:00 PM PT // $10 to $20

• FYI Eclipsing: Final Virtual Skillshare with Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health — January 10th, 12th, 17th, and 19th // $25+

• How to Create a Writing Habit with GrubStreet — January 10th from 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM ET // $85 with scholarships available

• Writers’ Room 101 with In the Cut — January 10th from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM PT // $15

• Elements of Story with In The Cut — January 24th from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM PT // $15

• Winter Teen Workshop: Getting to the Heart of the Story with The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College — February 17th through 20th // $399

• Queer History South Virtual Conference with Invisible Histories — February 20th through 22nd // $50+

• Queer ASL Classes

Online Opportunities 🛋

Fellowships, jobs, programs, and more

• Writing Climate Witness: A Creative Writing Workshop with Orion Magazine — Apply by December 15th.

• Elements of Style: A Creative Writing Workshop with Orion Magazine — Apply by December 15th.

• Writing the Scar: A Generative Poetry Workshop on Climate Grief with Orion Magazine — Apply by December 15th.

• Root & Reverie Creative Writing Workshop with Morgan Jerkins — Apply by December 17th.

• Director of Narrative and Storytelling with NDN Collective — Apply by December 21st.

• Community Collaboration Zine with Under the Umbrella — Submit by December 31st.

• The Inaugural Black N Animated Artist Fellowship with Black N Animated — Apply by January 7th.

• Wild Seeds Retreat for Writers of Color with Center for Black Literature — Apply by January 9th.

• RAGE Zine Vol. 3 — Submit by February 1st.

• 2026 Online Teaching Position with Midnight and Indigo

• Dreaming Anti-Ableist Land Work: A Monthly Meetup for Disabled Landworkers

• Research Study on young people, sexual health, and disability with Brandeis University

Remote Resources 📘

Support and info for these pandemic times

• A Different World Newsletter from Layla Saliba

• Disabled Creators To Buy From This Holiday Season 2025

• Disabled Artists 2026 Calendar

• 2025 Disability Holiday Gift Guide from Emily Ladau

• A guide to returning to masking from M (is) Living with Long Covid

• You know someone with Long COVID. They need you to ask about it genuinely. from The Sick Times

• Props No More, platform promoting authentic disability representation, offers media skills training, and advances accessibility in all forms of media

• Disability Justice, COVID, and Community Organizing Reading and Resource List from COVID Safe Campus

• Wrapped: How to ditch Spotify & switch to something slightly less evil, free zine download

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.

The summer hiatus stretched longer than anticipated, but we are back! Thank you for your patience, support, and ongoing commitment to pandemic safety.

If you’re new here, 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, please check back in the new year!

📚 If you’re new, start with this pandemic resource roundup.

Thanks for reading!

-Justin✨

Action Alerts 🔔

Steps to support a better world

• Add your name to A Call for the Universal Use of Respirators in Healthcare.

• Join the World Health Network’s Health Department Outreach Campaign.

Virtual Events 🎟

Gatherings that are either fully online or hybrid with an online option

• Community Leadership Masterclass with Belong Institute // December 9th from 5:30 to 7:00 PM ET // Free

• December Crip Arts Gathering with RestFest Film Festival — Wednesday, December 10th from 11:30 to 1:30 PM PT // Pay-what-you-can

• Word/Play: A Generative Poetry Workshop with Sundress Academy for the Arts — December 10th from 6:00 to 7:30 PM ET // Free with donations welcome

• LGBTQ+ Memorialization, Ritual and Spiritual Care with Queer Grief Club — December 11th from 1:30 to 3:00 PM ET // Free

• Gratitude & Growth: A Year-End Reflection with Passion Planner — Thursday, December 11th from 8:30 to 9:30 PM ET // Free

• BFS December LATE NIGHT Virtual Screenwriting Workshop with Black Film Space — Thursday, December 11th from 10:00 PM to 12:00 AM ET // $10

• Now More Than Ever: Virtual Networking Mixer and Fundraiser with Film Fatales — Friday, December 12th at 5:00 PM PT // $13.34 including fees

• Asians in Animation Community Summit with Asians in Animation — December 13th from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM PT // Free

• FUCK COVID Open Mic and After Party with Little Zoom Writers Room — December 13th at 5:00 to 10:00 PM ET // Free

• December Crip Arts Gathering with RestFest Film Festival — Wednesday, December 17th from 11:30 to 1:30 PM PT // Pay-what-you-can

• Roadmap to 2026: Vision & Goal-Setting Workshop with Passion Planner — Thursday, December 18th from 8:30 to 9:30 PM ET // Free

• dreaming our futures + embodying our dreams with alexa dexa and RestFest — First Saturdays from 3:00 to 5:00 PM ET // Pay what you can with $3 to $33 suggested per gathering

• Space & Time for BIPOC Writers with GrubStreet — Beings January 15th // Free

• Create: Free Draft Generator with GrubStreet — January 16th from 6:00 to 7:00 PM ET // Free

• Roadmap to 2026: From Vision to Action with Passion Planner — Friday, January 23rd from 8:30 to 9:30 PM ET // Free

• Free Love Story Generator with GrubStreet — February 13th from 6:00 to 7:00 PM ET // Free

• Gotham Writers Nonfiction Conference with Gotham Writers — March 21st and 22nd // $95+

Online Opportunities 🛋

Fellowships, jobs, programs, and more

• Digital Marketing Manager and Media Strategist with Epiphany — Apply by December 15th.

• Trans Poetry Anthology Contest with Trans Poetics Archive — Submit by December 31st.

• 2026 Workshop Proposals with Abode Press — Submit by Monday, January 5th.

• Scholarship Application with Unicorn Authors Club

• Mapping the Afterlives of Performance with Jaamil Olawale Kosoko (more information on Instagram)

Remote Resources 📘

Support and info for these pandemic times

• Navigating Holidays While COVID Conscious from Olivia Belknap Therapy

• Running Covid-Safer Dental Clinics from The Vermont Mask Collective

• Some resources for COVID-safer young people from The Cranky Queer

• COVID Competency Exam from Sean Mullen

• Staying Safe(r) During Doctor Visits from Washington Heights-Inwood Mask Bloc

• So You Want to Wear a Mask Zine from Disabled Queer Alliance

• Back to School: Covid Edition Flyer from mx.papaya

• How to survive a layoff from Queer & Trans Wealth

• Digital Security Checklists for Activists

• Yes, We Continue Wearing Masks—Here’s Why: Common Questions Answered from World Health Network

• Kids’ Zone Covid-Conscious Magazine: Issue 17 from World Health Network

• The Black Ordinary Zine: Issue 1

• Lit Lib’s 2025 Anti-Capitalist HOLIDAY GUIDE from Literary Liberation

• Saint Heron Community Library

• Translation and Race by Corine Tachtiris, free open-access book

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.

🔍 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, fill out this form.

📚 If you’re new, start with this pandemic resource roundup.

Virtual Events 🎟

Gatherings that are either fully online or hybrid with an online option

• Texas Style Breakfast Tacos with Rebecca Gorena with Park Slope Food Coop — Wednesday, July 30th from 7:30 to 8:30 PM ET // Free

• Etched: Audre Lorde and Witnessing the Present with Mobile Homecoming Trust — July 31st at 5:30 PM ET // $25

• July Virtual Screenwriting Workshop with Black Film Space — Thursday, July 31st from 7:00 to 8:30 PM ET // $10

• No Such Thing as Writer's Block: The "What's Going On?" Edition with UGBA — Sundays, August 3rd through 24th from 7:00 to 9:00 PM ET // $15 per class or $50 for all

• Stews, Spices and Sorcery: medicine and magic in the kitchen - Spiritual Herbalism Summer Workshop with Sacred Vibes Apothecary — August 3rd at 1:00 PM ET // $5

• Writing into the Self Through the Chakras with Raychelle Heath with Mission Belonging — Monday, August 4th from 7:00 to 8:30 PM ET // Free

• Free Verse Workshop for BIPOC Creatives: CRINGE with The Poetry Society of New York — Tuesday, August 5th at 7:00 PM ET // Free

• Master Class: An Intro to Cinematic Sound Design with Sundance Collab — Tuesday, August 5th from 1:00 to 4:00 PM ET // Free

• The window of tolerance & the classroom with Cait Kirby — Tuesday, August 5th at 2:00 PM ET // $20

• After Accountability: A Virtual Round Table with Pinko collective and Haymarket Books — Wednesday, August 6th from 7:00 to 8:30 PM ET // Sliding scale from $0 to $25

• Wisdom In Our Bones - Spiritual Herbalism Summer Workshop with Sacred Vibes Apothecary — August 10th at 11:00 AM ET // $5

• Pace Yourself: Honoring Your Body in a Chaotic World with Misfit Mental Health — Sunday, August 10th from 1:00 to 2:30 PM CT // Sliding scale from $25 to $75

• Revealing the hidden curriculum with Cait Kirby — Wednesday, August 13th at 2:00 PM ET // $20

• Script Club: MULHOLLAND DRIVE with Sudance Collab — Thursday, August 14th from 4:30 to 6:30 PM ET // Free

• Career Coaching Group: Reinventing, Reinvigorating and Recharging Your Writing Career with The Writers Guild Foundation — Friday, August 15th from 10:00 to 11:30 AM PT // Free or with suggested donation

• Rest Nests for Nara: No Disability Pride in Genocide with rebirth garments x rewilding.cc — Saturday, August 16th at 3:00 PM ET // Sliding scale from $30 to $50 with scholarships available

• Legal 101: Spotlight on Intellectual Property with Humanitas — August 27th from 5:00 to 6:30 PM PT // Free

• 8th Annual Spiritual Herbalism Conference — Ancestral Intelligence (A.I.): A Future of Remembering with Sacred Vibes Community Healing Initiative — October 3rd through 5th // $120+

• Creating with our Bodies: a 7-week, virtual workshop series with reinventing creative process — Begins October 5th // Sliding scale from $350 to $600

Online Opportunities 🛋

Fellowships, jobs, programs, and more

• Microgrant for Queer Nature Writers with ALOCASIA — Apply by July 31st.

• Queer | Art | Mentorship with Queer | Art — Apply by July 31st.

• Following and Falling Past the Line: A poetry workshop with Annie Wenstrup with Orion Magazine — Apply by August 5th.

• Growing Earth Poems: A poetry workshop with Kim Stafford with Orion Magazine — Apply by August 5th.

• Wild, Messy, Bold: Kickstart Your Writing Project with Katrina Vandenberg with Orion Magazine — Apply by August 5th.

• Undoing Internalized Ableism Cohort with PeoplesHub — Apply by August 9th.

• Disability Rising Fellowship with Disability Culture Lab — Apply by August 22nd.

• Creative Submissions with Ave Astra

• Submissions with The African American Folkorist Magazine

Remote Resources 📘

Support and info for these pandemic times

• Unmasking Mask Hate: The Racial-Criminal Pathologization of Dissent by Leah Harris and Liat Ben-Moshe from Disability Visibility Project

• Zines from Disability Action Research Kollective

• How to Salvage Treasured Books from Flood Damage by Natalie Middleton from Orion Magazine

• Celebrate Disability Pride this July from Orion Magazine

• Long Covid Showed Me the Bottom of American Health Care from WNYC

• Kids’ Zone Covid-Conscious Magazine: Issue 13 from World Health Network

• Radiooooo, app to explore global music over time

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.

🔍 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, fill out this form.

📚 If you’re new, start with this pandemic resource roundup.

Action Alerts 🔔

Steps to support a better world

• Become a phone banking volunteer to protect Medicaid and SNAP nutrition benefits.

• Tell New York State to stop purchasing Israel Bonds for the Common Retirement Fund.

Virtual Events 🎟

Gatherings that are either fully online or hybrid with an online option

• MyWellbeing Grounding Group with Expert Therapists Mariam and Nicole with MyWellbeing — Tuesday, July 15th from 5:45 to 6:45 PM ET // Free

• Midsummer Nights Film Club with the Corporeal Writing Squad with Corporeal Writing — Next session is July 15th from 4:00 to 5:15 PM PT // $20 per session

• Beyond the Headlines: Caring for Your Mind in Chaotic Times with GoodWerk Counseling — July 16th from 6:30 to 8:00 PM ET // Free

• The Future Is Fungi with Orion and FERN — July 17th from 2:00 to 3:00 PM ET // Free

• Thursdays on the Stoop: Getting Started in Literary Translation with Blue Stoop — Thursday, July 17th from 4:00 to 5:00 PM ET // Free

• July Crip Arts Gathering with RestFest Film Festival — Sunday, July 20th from 2:30 to 4:30 PM ET // Sliding scale beginning at $1 with scholarships available

• Take the First Breath: Gentle Intro to Breathwork with Omi Bell — Sunday, July 20th from 8:30 to 9:30 PM ET // $25

• Care? Where?!: A 6-Week Virtual Workshop Exploring Deeper Communal Care with MESS WERK — Begins Monday, July 21st // $0 to $360

• I Can't Remember How to Do This — Writing Memory in Fiction and Nonfiction: A Masterclass with Rebecca Makkai with Blue Stoop — Tuesday, July 22nd from 6:00 to 8:00 PM ET // $50

• Speculative Specula w/ Lidia Yuknavitch & Janice Lee & Domi Shoemaker with Corporeal Writing — Wednesday, July 23rd from 12:00 to 2:00 PM PT // $100 to $250 with scholarships available

• Fast Fuel Micro-Retreat with FORGE NYC — Thursday, July 24th from 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM ET // Free

• Exceptional Cameraworkers: Early Black Photographers in New Jersey with Plainfield Public Library — Saturday, July 26th from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM ET // Free

• Revolutionary Alignment with Cosmic Healing — Begins July 26th // Sliding scale from $0 to $55

• Writing Our Grief with Forest Floor Findings — Sunday, July 27th from 12:00 to 1:30 PM PT // Pay-what-you-can with a suggested payment of $5 to $10

• Reading Trancestors: A Trans History Book Club with The Nonbinarian — July 28th from 8:00 to 9:30 PM ET // Free

• Poetry Club with Blue Stoop — Tuesday, July 29th from 6:30 to 7:30 PM ET // Free

• Build Your Toolbox: Approaches to Generation and Revision with Brooklyn Poets — Begins July 31st // $185

• Stranger Than Fiction: Writing From Personal Experience Panel with Sera Rivers — July 31st from 7:00 to 8:00 PM ET // $29

• The Stories You've Never Seen Before: A Masterclass with Alexander Chee with Blue Stoop — Monday, August 4th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM ET // $50

• Unapologetically Herself: Writing Bold and Complex Young Women with The Writers Guild Foundation — Friday, August 8th from 7:00 to 8:30 PM PT // $5 - $15

• August Peer Support Group with Copilot Recovery — Monday, August 11th from 8:00 to 9:00 PM ET // $15 suggested donation

• Beyond Self-Translation: Bilingualizing the Poetic Process as a Form of Destruction and Creation with Abode Press — Sunday, August 17th from 12:00 to 2:00 PM CT // Starting at $25

• Memoir for the Apocalypse with Melissa Febo with Corporeal Writing — Saturday, September 13th from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM PT // $150 to $275 with scholarships available

• Writing with the Earth: An Anti-Imperialism Approach Towards Eco-Poetics with Abode Press — Tuesday, September 16th from 7:00 to 9:00 PM CT // Pay-what-you-want above $25

Online Opportunities 🛋

Fellowships, jobs, programs, and more

• All Power To The People: A Summer School for Socialism with The People’s Forum — Sign up ASAP.

• FSG Writer’s Fellowship — Apply by July 18th.

• Solidarity Is Cohort with The Building Movement Project — Apply by July 21st.

• Community Anthologies with Seventh Wave — Submit by July 27th.

• Issue 3: COVID Cautious Queers Zine with @steel.transplants — Submit by July 30th.

• Body of the Book with Lidia Yuknavitch with Corporeal Writing — Apply by August 15th.

Remote Resources 📘

Support and info for these pandemic times

• “But my therapist said…” COVID-Informed Therapists Panel from Public Health is Dead Podcast

• Worlding Difference Knowledge Platform from Bodies in Translation: Activist Art, Technology, and Access to Life

• Summer Bonus: Convince your friends that Covid is really bad for you. from The Covid-Is-Not-Over Newsletter

• Texanalysis: Respirator Info & Fit Testing from Texan_Reverend

• Trans Reads

• Five Steps to Walk Away from Empire by Nicholas Triolo from Orion Magazine

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.

🔍 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, fill out this form.

📚 If you’re new, start with this pandemic resource roundup.

Virtual Events 🎟

Gatherings that are either fully online or hybrid with an online option

• Joy? More Serious Than You Think with Sundress Academy for the Arts — Wednesday, July 9th from 6:00-7:30 PM ET // Free with donations welcome

• URSA Live: A Night of Storytelling with Deesha Philyaw, Dawnie Walton, and Kiese Laymon with The Center for Fiction — Wednesday, July 9th from 7:00 to 8:15 PM ET // $5

• Read Like a Writer with Carolyn Huynh with Permission to Write — Thursday, July 10th from 5:00 to 6:00 PM PT // Free

• The Creative Courage Writing Intensive with All the Many Layers — Begins July 10th // $480

• Space & Time for BIPOC Writers with GrubStreet — Begins July 11th // Free

• The Creator’s Playbook: Pitching Without a Gatekeeper with Black Film Space — Tuesday, July 15th from 7:00 to 8:30 PM ET // $15

• Free Draft Generator with GrubStreet — July 16th from 12:00 to 1:00 PM ET // Free

• Staff Writer Bootcamp Weekend Intensive with In the Cut — July 19th and 20th from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM PT // $49

• You're So Jealous I Bet You Think This Episode Excludes You with Intrapology — July 20th from 2:00 to 4:00 PM ET // £10 GBP or £3+ pay-what-you-can

• Disaster Preparedness for Parents with Disabilities with Lurie Institute for Disability Policy — July 21st at 12:00 PM ET // Free

• Our Right to Thrive: Webinar with Dolly Sen with Disability Arts Online — July 22nd from 9:00 to 10:00 PM ET // Free

• July Forest Ball: A Virtual Dance Party & Fundraiser for Jodie Kirschner with lauren samblanet — Thursday, July 24th at 6:30 to 8:30 PM MT // Pay-what-you-can

• Summer 2025 Town Hall with The Sick Times — July 24th at 7:00 PM ET // Free

• 2026 Writers' Access Support Staff Training Program Info Session with The Writers Guild Foundation — July 24th at 9:00 PM ET // Free

• July Poetry Xfit with Sundress Academy for the Arts — Sunday, July 27th from 2:00 to 4:00 PM ET // Free with donations welcome

• (DG) 2025 Summer Salon with Directors Gathering — Sunday, July 27th from 5:00 to 6:30 PM ET // Free

• Writing as a Restorative Practice with The Writer’s Center — Sunday, July 28th from 1:00 to 4:00 PM ET // $60

• How to Submit: Publishing Your Writing with Literary Magazines and Small Presses with GrubStreet — August 2nd from 10:30 AM to 1:30 PM ET // $85 with scholarships available

• Read Like a Writer with Bernice L. McFadden with Permission to Write — Thursday, August 7th at 5:00 PM PT // Free

• Contemporary Craft Series: Sentence-Making for Storytellers with Jennifer Haigh with GrubStreet — August 11th from 6:00 to 7:30 PM ET // $35 with scholarships available

• Good Grief: Writing Poems About Loss with Button University — Begins September 7th // $125

• The Gotham Writers Fiction Conference with Gotham Writers — October 4th and 5th // $95+

Online Opportunities 🛋

Fellowships, jobs, programs, and more

• Submissions with a new zine about disability, care + resistance — Submit by July 17th.

• Communications Associate with Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund — Apply by July 18th.

• Social Media Coordinator with Words Without Borders — Apply by Sunday, July 20th.

• Gentle Effort Summer Club with Literary Liberation — Begins Monday, July 28th.

• ISSUE 03: SURREAL Submissions with RUNWAY Magazine — Submit by July 31st.

• I’m Obsessed Contest with Gotham Writers — Submit by Sunday, August 31st.

• Free Basic Membership with Directors Gathering

Remote Resources 📘

Support and info for these pandemic times

• A Writer's Guide To Understanding ICE Raids from Define American

• Q3 Resource Roundup from Black Remote She

• caregiving, a documentary revealing America’s caregiving crisis through intimate stories and expert insight, from PBS

• August 2025 Artist Opportunities from Fractured Atlas

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.

🔍 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, fill out this form.

📚 If you’re new, start with this pandemic resource roundup.

Virtual Events 🎟

Gatherings that are either fully online or hybrid with an online option

• IN SEARCH OF A BLACK STUDIES COMMONWEALTH: the end of a discipline (An Interactive Roundtable) with The Malcolm X Grassroots Movement — July 1st at 7:00 PM ET // Free

• Creative Coworking with Blue Stoop — Wednesday, July 2nd from 3:30 to 5:30 PM ET // Free

• Thursdays on the Stoop: Miracle Workers & Porch Prophets — Myth in Poetry with Blue Stoop — Thursday, July 3rd from 4:00 to 5:00 PM ET // Free

• Joke Writing Lab with Ethan T. Berlin — Begins Thursday, July 3rd // $250

• Processing Group: Freedom For Who? with Restore National — Friday, July 4th at 8:00 PM ET // Free

• Virtual Pride Open Mic with Olólùfẹ́ Collective — Saturday, July 5th from 2:00 to 3:30 PM ET // Free

• New Play Development Workshop with PlayPenn — Starts July 5th // $40

• Nothing About Us Without Us: Free Verse Virtual Workshop for LGBT+ Creatives with The Poetry Society of New York — Tuesday, July 8th from 7:00 to 8:15 PM ET // Free

• Border Work: Race, Labor, and Ethnonationalism with Night School Bar — Begins Tuesday, July 8th // $340 with sliding scale options available

• Write with Hugo House with Jeanine Walker with Hugo House — July 9th from 6:00 to 7:00 PM PT // Free

• Pitch Your Origin Story: A Three Week Clinic with Roadmap Writers — Begins Wednesday, July 9th // $129

• Creative Strategies for the Changing Screenwriting Landscape with Pipeline Artists — Wednesday, July 9th at 7:00 PM ET // $45

• Online Stand-up 1: Stand-up Comedy Basics with Alyssa Al-Dookhi with Crossroads Comedy Theater — Begins Wednesday, July 9th // $199

• First Impressions: The Power of Opening Pages with Blue Stoop — Thursday, July 10th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM ET with an asynchronous option available // $50 with financial aid available

• COVID Cautious Grief Space with Forest Floor Findings — Saturday, July 12th from 12:00 to 1:30 PM PT // Suggested donation of $15 with sliding scale options

• Freeing Ourselves: A Week of TGNB Wellness with Zami Tinashe Hyemingway— July 14th through 19th from 1:00 to 3:00 PM ET // Free

• From Draft to Deal: What REALLY Happens After You Finish Your Book with Pipeline Artists — Tuesday, July 15th at 7:00 PM ET // $35

• Intro to review-writing: A webinar with the editors at Broad Street Review with Broad Street Review — Wednesday, July 16th at 6:30 PM ET // Suggested donation of $25

• BAD REVIEWS: How to write them and why we need them with Broad Street Review — Thursday, July 17th at 6:30 PT ET // Suggested donation of $25

• Career Coaching Group: Reinventing, Reinvigorating and Recharging Your Writing Career with The Writers Guild Foundation — Friday, July 18th from 10:00 to 11:30 AM ET // Free or with a suggested donation

• Let’s Get Personal: Geography of Joy Workshop with Literary Liberation — Begins July 19th // $95 to $225 with payment plans available

• How To Be Disabled in a Pandemic: A Disability Pride Panel with The New York Public Library and the NYU Center for Disability Studies — Tuesday, July 22nd from 6:00 to 7:30 PM ET // Free

• I Can't Remember How to Do This: Writing Memory in Fiction and Nonfiction with Blue Stoop — Tuesday, July 22nd from 6:00 to 8:00 PM ET // $50 with financial aid available

• Beyond the Query: The First 50 Pages with Pipeline Artists — Wednesday, July 23rd at 7:00 PM ET // $35

• Submissions Intensive: Writing to Win with PlayPenn — Begins July 23rd // $450

• Songwriting Made Easy with Nivi Canela — Thursday, July 24th from 5:30 to 7:30 PM ET // $20 plus Eventbrite fees

• Birthwork as a Tool for Ancestral Healing with Apetebi Iyalaje — Sunday, July 27th at 5:30 PM CT // $15

• Analyzing Musicals: Summer with Sondheim with PlayPenn — Begins July 28th // $250

• Writing Disability on Stage with PlayPenn — Begins July 29th // $250

• Crafting Dialogue: Tools & Techniques with PlayPenn — Begins July 29th // $250

• Pivoting 101: Changing Career Paths with Humanitas — Wednesday, July 30th from 5:00 to 6:30 PM PT // Free

• The New Canon: Plays by Visionary Women with PlayPenn — Beings July 30th // $250

• Script Rewrite Lab with PlayPenn — Begins July 31st // $450

• Song Dramaturgy Intensive with PlayPenn — Begins August 1st // $450

• Develop Your Novel Workshop with The Spring School — Begins August 2nd // $150 with payment plans available

• How to Make Your First Short Film Seminar with The Spring School — Begins August 4th // $150

• Theory & Craft Seminar: NANCY & NORA & ME & YOU with The Spring School — Beings August 5th // $250 with payment plans available

• Theory & Craft Seminar: The Modern Rom-Com with The Spring School — Begins August 6th // $200

• Picture Books Intensive with Gotham Writers — Saturday, August 9th and 16th from 1:00 to 4:00 PM ET // $200

• The Write Your Rom-Com Workshop: Scene Study & Creating an Outline with The Spring School — Begins August 10th // $300

Online Opportunities 🛋

Fellowships, jobs, programs, and more

• Poets Camp with Ariana Brown — Register by July 3rd.

• Teaching Artist Summer Camp: Cultivating a Teaching Philosophy with Yasmine Ameli — Register by July 3rd.

• Take Control of Your Money with Be Intentional Financial — Register by July 6th.

• Resource Organizing Fellowship with Boston Ujima Project — Apply by July 13th.

• Facilitator Job Openings with AORTA — Apply by July 20th.

• Publishing Program with Anaphora Arts — Apply by July 31st.

• Voice of Color Workshop I with UCLA Extension — Apply by August 25th.

• Passion Project Radio Performers with The Passion Project Org UK (more information on Instagram)

• Senior Creative Director with National Domestic Workers Alliance

Remote Resources 📘

Support and info for these pandemic times

• Nerve: Unlearning Workshop Ableism to Develop Your Disabled Writing Practice by Sarah Fawn Montgomery from Sundress Publications, free chapbook download

• Everybody Needs a Sick Comrade: A Collective Zine About Sick Comradeship

• Banned Book Resources from Lambda Literary

• Lunar Lit #23 | Hello, Summer Solstice! from Literary Liberation, writing prompts

About Justin

Justin Clarel (they/them) 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.