Nonfiction
Foster Dickson is a writer, editor, and teacher in Montgomery, Alabama. He is the author of Closed Ranks, the editor of Nobody’s Home and level:deepsouth, and the coordinator of the Fitzgerald Museum’s annual Literary Contest.
Foster has been writing nonfiction for more than twenty years. Alongside full-length books, his publication credits also include entries in encyclopedias, articles in magazines and newspapers, and reviews of books. Below is a sampling of his nonfiction work. Click on the red links to read.
Biographical Essays
Online Biographical Dictionary of the Woman Suffrage Movement
Encyclopedia of Alabama
Articles
Montgomery Advertiser
“Normandale: Where Everybody Knew Your Name”
published February 7, 2020
It’s a Southern Thing (Red Clay Media)
“Artists and Writers Will Love This Quiet Mountaintop Retreat”
published February 1, 2020
Multicultural Review
“Bringing Poetry Back Home”
published in Winter 2009
Montgomery Living (now River Region Living)
2007 – 2008: contributing writer
NPR’s “This I Believe” project
“Writing is Activism”
published in January 2007
Evergreen Review
“An Interview with Ron Whitehead”
published in June 2005, issue #110
Reviews
Callaloo: A Journal of the African Diaspora
book review of The South That Wasn’t There by Michael Kreyling
published in Summer 2012
Alabama Writers Forum
book review of American Happiness by Jacqueline Trimble
published January 2018
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