Foster Dickson: Teaching at Booker T. Washington
Foster Dickson is a writer, editor and teacher in Montgomery, Alabama. He is the author of three books: Kindling Not Yet Split (Court Street Press, 2002), I Just Make People Up: Ramblings with Clark Walker (NewSouth Books, 2009), and The Life and Poetry of John Beecher (Edwin Mellen Press, 2009), and the general editor of Treasuring Alabama's Black Belt (AUM/AHF, 2009).
Foster Dickson has taught at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School in Montgomery, Alabama, since September 2003. In addition to the magnet teacher's duties of providing classroom instruction in creative nonfiction, poetry, playwriting, screenwriting, and fiction, as well as academic writing and some journalism, he is also the faculty sponsor for the school literary magazine, Graphophobia, and for an online arts-focused student journalism project, Newsprung. He is the sponsor of the school's Film Club and the faculty representative to the school's PTSA. In 2005, he chartered the school's chapter of National English Honor Society and sponsored that activity until May 2008. Due to system-wide personnel cutbacks, Foster also become BTW's senior English teacher in 2010.
Foster stays busy keeping his creative writing students engaged. The book projects are listed as links on the left side of each webpage here. The magnet also collaborates every year with both the photography magnet to produce the literary magazine and the theater magnet to produce their student-written one-act plays. Foster's students also take annual field trips to the University of Alabama's Book Arts program, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the Alabama Department of Archives & History, and to the Kentuck Festival of the Arts; other field trips over the years have included George Mason University's creative writing program and the Birmingham Public Library's Alabama Bound literary festival. Guest speakers have included such writers as poets Greg Pape, Mark Doty, Irene Latham, Sebastian Matthews, Douglas Kearney, DeLana Dameron and Sean Hill; fiction writers Jim Grimsley, Marlin Barton, and Kirk Curnutt; playwrights Javon Johnson, Carlyle Brown, and Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder; and journalist Wayne Greenhaw. The program regularly displays their work at the Alabama Book Festival.
Foster Dickson is a writer, editor and teacher in Montgomery, Alabama. He is the author of three books: Kindling Not Yet Split (Court Street Press, 2002), I Just Make People Up: Ramblings with Clark Walker (NewSouth Books, 2009), and The Life and Poetry of John Beecher (Edwin Mellen Press, 2009), and the general editor of Treasuring Alabama's Black Belt (AUM/AHF, 2009).
Foster Dickson has taught at Booker T. Washington Magnet High School in Montgomery, Alabama, since September 2003. In addition to the magnet teacher's duties of providing classroom instruction in creative nonfiction, poetry, playwriting, screenwriting, and fiction, as well as academic writing and some journalism, he is also the faculty sponsor for the school literary magazine, Graphophobia, and for an online arts-focused student journalism project, Newsprung. He is the sponsor of the school's Film Club and the faculty representative to the school's PTSA. In 2005, he chartered the school's chapter of National English Honor Society and sponsored that activity until May 2008. Due to system-wide personnel cutbacks, Foster also become BTW's senior English teacher in 2010.
Foster stays busy keeping his creative writing students engaged. The book projects are listed as links on the left side of each webpage here. The magnet also collaborates every year with both the photography magnet to produce the literary magazine and the theater magnet to produce their student-written one-act plays. Foster's students also take annual field trips to the University of Alabama's Book Arts program, the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the Alabama Department of Archives & History, and to the Kentuck Festival of the Arts; other field trips over the years have included George Mason University's creative writing program and the Birmingham Public Library's Alabama Bound literary festival. Guest speakers have included such writers as poets Greg Pape, Mark Doty, Irene Latham, Sebastian Matthews, Douglas Kearney, DeLana Dameron and Sean Hill; fiction writers Jim Grimsley, Marlin Barton, and Kirk Curnutt; playwrights Javon Johnson, Carlyle Brown, and Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder; and journalist Wayne Greenhaw. The program regularly displays their work at the Alabama Book Festival.