Tobeco

Tobeco Welcome to Tobeco, Clarion University's student literary and arts journal! Tobeco is the literary and arts journal of Clarion University. What's with the name?

This year's Tobeco issue will be our ninth journal. Our students come from departments across the university. In addition to publishing a journal, we also sponsor field trips, fundraisers and campus events like Open Mic nights. Our goal is to showcase Clarion University's creativity in writing and art and to promote creativity on the campus and in the surrounding community. Before 1817, the Clario

n River was more commonly called "Tobeco," likely a corruption of Tuppeek-hanne, meaning the stream that flows from a large spring. Settlers called it the Toby or Stump Creek as early as 1809. The name Clarion was given by surveyor Daniel Stanard in 1817, who said the water sounded like a distant clarion, which was a type of trumpet used in the middle ages.

07/31/2024

Hey Tobeco-ites! The Bridge Literary Arts Festival is sponsoring its second one day LIT FEST--this August 10, 2024 at the Venango Campus. Participants can attend two writing workshops in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, sci-fi/fantasy/world building and mult-genre. Also: open mics, bike/write and hike/write, book and community fair and opportunity to commune with other writers. We have special cost for students over 18, and scholarships available. It's going to be a wonderful gathering of writers. Check out more information here: https://www.bridgeliteraryartscenter.org/lit-fest.html

Questions? Email us at [email protected]

Join us!

02/13/2024

Tobeco submissions are due tomorrow! Folks from ALL THREE PENNWEST campuses, please send us your best work.

11/16/2022

Our next open mic night is tomorrow at 6!

03/14/2022

Join Tobeco & English Club Thursday night, March 17th, for an Open Mic in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day and Women’s History Month.

The event will begin at 6pm at Michelle’s Cafe as well as on Zoom.

Tobeco is now accepting submissions for our Spring 2022 journal! Send your submissions to tobeco@clarion.eduIf you have ...

01/14/2022

Tobeco is now accepting submissions for our Spring 2022 journal! Send your submissions to [email protected]

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us!

10/15/2021

Come join Tobeco for virtual Open Mic, featuring marvelous writer, editor and publisher Michael Simms, Thursday, October 21, 6 PM....

09/29/2021

Join Tobeco & English Club tomorrow night, September 30th, for an Open Mic in support of Banned Books Week!

The event will begin at 6pm at Michelle’s Cafe as well as on Zoom.

05/05/2021

Introducing--Tobeco: the Literary and Arts Journal of Clarion University's 20th Anniversary Issue! Special thanks to all the student editors, co-advisors, university staff and faculty and especially contributors, who made this issue possible (especially during a pandemic!). We so much appreciate the support the university has generously given over the years. Copies available in Clarion at Michelle's Cafe, Artfunkle, and the English Department at Clarion University. Or, PM me! Find back issues on our new website (still developing): https://www.tobecojournal.com/controller/controller.php?action=Home

04/22/2021

🌳Join us today at 5:00!

Join us for our Earth DayTobeco Open Mic featuring the phenomenal award-winning poet Wayne Swanger!

Thursday, April 22, 5 PM
Join Zoom Meeting
https://clarion.zoom.us/j/94813989410
Passcode: 159532

04/17/2021

Join us for our Earth DayTobeco Open Mic featuring the phenomenal award-winning poet Wayne Swanger!

Thursday, April 22, 5 PM
Join Zoom Meeting
https://clarion.zoom.us/j/94813989410
Passcode: 159532

04/09/2021

Join us for our next live reading featuring IPPY award-winning author, Kathie Shoop!
📙When: Thursday, April 15
📘Time: 5:00 P.M. EST
📕via Zoom - https://clarion.zoom.us/j/91947784520

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Tobeco Literary & Arts Journal Presents Meg Pokrass

CLARION Students, Faculty and Community Members are invited to participate in an OPEN MIC that will kick off with a reading from flash fiction writer Meg Pokrass. Meg Pokrass is the U.K. based author of seven flash fiction collections, two award-winning collections of hybrid prose and two novellas-in-flash . Her latest books are The Loss Detector (Bamboo Dart Press, 2020) The Dog Seated Next to Me (Pelekinsis, 2019), Alice In Wonderland Syndrome (V. Press, 2020) and An Object At Rest (Ravenna Press, 2020). Her stories have been published in Electric Literature, Waxwing, Tin House, Wigleaf, Jellyfish Review, Smokelong Quarterly, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and more than 800 publications including The Best Small Fictions, Wigleaf Top 50, and two Norton Anthologies of flash fiction.

Tobeco Christina Fisanick

Tobeco Open Mic Featuring James Charlesworth

CLARION Students, Faculty and Community Members are invited to participate in an OPEN MIC that will kick off with a reading from novelist James Charleswoth. Charlesworth’s first novel, The Patricide of George Benjamin Hill, was published in 2019. His writing has appeared in Natural Bridge and was awarded finalist status in Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers. He was also the recipient of a Martin Dibner Fellowship. James grew up eighty miles east of Pittsburgh, attended Penn State University, and received an MFA from Emerson College in Boston, where he currently lives.