OMEC Returns!
Are you ready for six months of incisive, multi-media discussion? The OMEC is back and coming to an internet near you. The theme for this cycle is “vulnerability” and we’ve got six discussion leaders lined up and ready to guide us through all of the theme, craft, and mechanics talk you can stand. Check out the schedule below for the dates, leaders, and the works we will be examining.
Illustration, Rhea Ewing: April 13 – May 10
- Julie Dillon
Beneath the Surface
Pearls and Stardust
Atmospheric Sea - Hasani Claxton
A Well-Earned Rest
Broken - John Picacio
La Valiente
Diamond Deep Book Two of Ruby’s Song Cover - Teagan White
Watership Down
Vengeance Road Jacket - Cynthia Shepherd
Deconstructing Wonderland
Podcasts, Christian Kelley-Madera: May 11 – June 14
- SONG EXPLODER: Fleetwood Mac – “Go Your Own Way” (~20 mins, nonfiction)
- WOLF 359: Memoria (~40 mins, fiction)
Film/TV, TJ Berry: June 15 – July 12
- The Mandalorian Season 1
Comics, Christopher Eric: July 13 – August 9
- “Are you listening?” by Tillie Walden
Prose, Edward A. Hall : August 10 – September 13
- TBD
Games, N. Theodoridou: September 14 – October 11
- TAKE by Katherine Morayati
Don’t feel like you have to wait to start on the OMEC fun. The discussion thread is up and ready for your thoughts, progress reports, and chat.
Jessica Eanes
Jessica Eanes, also known as Anaea Lay, lives in Chicago, Illinois, where she engages in a numinous love affair with the city. She’s the fiction podcast editor for Strange Horizons, and has had her short fiction published in a variety of venues including Lightspeed, Apex, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Pod Castle. Her CYOA interactive game, "Gilded Rails" was released by Choice of Games in 2018. It features a demonic cat, an implausibly efficient accountant, and far too many potential romantic interests. For fun she reads, cooks, eats, plays board games, interrogates people about the logistics of their chosen field, and forms intricate business plans over brunch.