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.

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

03/26/2021

Join us for our next open mic, featuring award-winning poet Nancy Krygowski!

Thursday, April 1, 5 PM, Zoom: Meeting ID: 981 9141 2281

03/11/2021

If you're looking for the Tobeco Open Mic link, here it is: https://clarion.zoom.us/j/94521893273

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03/11/2021

The link for tonight's reading and Open Mic featuring Nancy McCabe is as follows:

https://clarion.zoom.us/j/94521893273

Join us now!

03/09/2021

Tobeco Open Mic! featuring fantastic Creative Nonfiction Writer Nancy McCabe--this Thursday, March 11--!

Nancy McCabe has published four books of creative nonfiction: a collection of essays, After the Flashlight Man: A Memoir of Awakening (Purdue 2003) and two full-length memoirs, Meeting Sophie: A Memoir of Adoption (Missouri 2003) and Crossing the Blue Willow Bridge: A Journey to my Daughter's Birthplace in China (Missouri 2011.) Check out her new author's web site at http://www.nancymccabe.net.

Her work has won a Pushcart Prize for memoir, been listed four times in the notable section of Best American Essays, and won two awards from Prairie Schooner.

Her creative nonfiction has appeared in Newsweek, Writer's Digest, Fourth Genre, Crazyhorse, Massachusetts Review, and Crab Orchard Review, among others, and been reprinted in an English-language textbook in Germany. She has published reviews and critical articles in Studies in Popular Culture, American Literary Review, and Literary Potpourri. Her teacher's handbook, Making Poems: Writing Exercises for the Classroom was published in 1989 by Arkansas Writers in the Schools, a program she directed for two years in addition to working as a writer in the schools in South Carolina and Missouri.

She has taught creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry workshops for more than twenty-five years at six colleges and universities, and currently also teaches in the brief-residency MFA program in creative writing at Spalding University. At Pitt-Bradford, she received the Chairs' Faculty Teaching Award for excellence in teaching in 2005. She is also a recipient of a 2007 Individual Artist's Fellowship in Literature from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

03/04/2021

Join us on March 11th at 6:00 P.M. for our next Live Reading & Open Mic! This time we are featuring author Nancy McCabe’s work! • Zoom ID: 960 085 5679

3/11 will also be our LAST day accepting submissions for our 2021 journal!

02/26/2021

02/25/2021

Today! 2 PM:

Watch at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooDGQruDq6I
OR: www.facebook.com/tobecocu

Author Deesha Philyaw's debut short story collection, “The Secret Lives of Church Ladies,” was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction and for The Story Prize (2020/2021). The book focuses on Black women, s*x, and the Black church. Philyaw is also the co-author of “Co-Parenting 101: Helping Your Kids Thrive in Two Households After Divorce,” written in collaboration with her ex-husband.

Watch at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooDGQruDq6I

OR: Tobeco

02/06/2021

Some screenshots from Thursday's workshop and open mic. Y'all are beautiful people!

12/26/2020

Great day to work on your Tobeco submissions! We want your best work.

12/16/2020

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.

12/07/2020

Submission guidelines available at www.clarion.edu/tobeco

12/06/2020

TOBECO Submissions Are Now OPEN! See https://cisapps.clarion.edu/tobeco/ for guidelines.

11/25/2020

Get ready to submit your best fiction, art, and poetry to Tobeco! Details coming soon.

11/23/2020

Santa's not the only one coming to town in December. We've got the inimitable Meg Pokrass, author leading a flash fiction workshop at Clarion University for the Tobeco literary journal. Students, faculty and community members welcome! PM for ZOOM LINK.

11/13/2020

Thanks to Dr. Christina Fisanick for her Digital Storytelling Workshop and Reading!

11/06/2020

If you'd like to participate in tonight's Open Mic just click the link. It will put you in the queue to join the reading. https://streamyard.com/2kh5w9hvv6

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11/06/2020

10/29/2020

Tobeco's Nic Allis pens a terrific article on James Charlesworth's Workshop and Reading at Clarion U.

Address

840 Wood Street
Clarion, PA
16214

Website

https://cisapps.clarion.edu/tobeco

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