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title: "Creative Writing Faculty Makes Peotry Prize Longlist"
type: "article"
space: "Faculty of Continuing Education and Training"
author: "Jamara Romero-Gennings"
created: 2023-12-05T14:40:33Z
updated: 2023-12-05T15:46:08Z
tags: ["fcet", "part", "senecaproud"]
url: "https://employees.senecapolytechnic.ca/spaces/47/faculty-of-continuing-education-and-training/articles/news/19023/creative-writing-faculty-makes-peotry-prize-longlist"
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# Creative Writing Faculty Makes Peotry Prize Longlist

🙌 We are #SenecaProud of Part-Time Studies faculty, [**Ashleigh Allen**](https://www.cbc.ca/books/literaryprizes/the-great-hypnotist-by-ashleigh-a-allen-1.7021145), for being one of 32 writers from across Canada to make the longlist for the [2023 CBC Poetry Prize](https://www.cbc.ca/books/literaryprizes/32-writers-from-across-canada-make-2023-cbc-poetry-prize-longlist-1.7017711). The longlist was selected from more than 2,400 submissions.

Ashleigh teaches EAC384 Creative Writing, and has also taught EAC273 Introduction to Children’s Literature and COM101 Communicating Across Contexts with Part-Time Studies. She holds a BAH from Queen's University; an MFA in poetry from The New School; an MA in education from Teachers College, Columbia University; and is currently a PhD candidate \(ABD\) in Curriculum & Pedagogy at OISE, University of Toronto.

Congratulations on this incredible achievement!