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Canadian writer, social justice activist, and Anglican priest
Maggie Helwig (born 1961) is a Canadian poet, novelist, social justice activist, and Anglican priest.
Academic career [ edit ]
Her early education was at Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute in Kingston , Ontario , graduating in 1979,[1] Trent University in Peterborough , Ontario, where she graduated with honours with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1983.
After reading for a Master of Divinity degree and serving as co-Head of Divinity at Trinity College , Toronto, she was ordained to the transitional diaconate in the Anglican Church of Canada at St. Paul's, Bloor Street , Toronto on 1 May 2011, and subsequently to the priesthood on 22 January 2012. On 27 November 2021, she was appointed an honorary Canon of St James' Cathedral, Toronto.
Bibliography [ edit ]
Helwig's second novel, Between Mountains , is a love story about a London-based Canadian journalist and a Serbian Albanian interpreter from Paris that endures the hardships that occurred during the war. The novel juxtaposes love and war within the characters while bringing about justice and truth.[2]
Her third novel, Girls Fall Down , 2008, was shortlisted for the 2009 Toronto Book Awards .[3] Toronto Life [4] Greg Doran , the novel is described as the narrator having a significant relationship with the "urban environment and the human spirit."[5]
She has also co-edited many anthologies of Canadian fiction and poetry, with collaborators including Bronwen Wallace , Douglas Glover , Mark Anthony Jarman and her father, David Helwig .[6]
Activism [ edit ]
Helwig has been involved in social activist groups such as TAPOL , the East Timor Alert Network, and the International Federation for East Timor which campaigned against the Indonesian occupation of East Timor . She has also worked with the
Women in Black network, particularly during the Balkan wars of the 1990s.[7] Occupy Wall Street movement, and was one of three clergy from different denominations ticketed for setting up a chapel at the Occupy Toronto "re-occupation" camp on May 1, 2012.[8] [9] [10]
Walking Through Fire , 1981
Tongues of Men and Angels , 1985
Eden , 1987
Because the Gunman , 1987
Talking Prophet Blues , 1989
Graffiti for J.J. Harper , 1991
Eating Glass , 1994
The City on Wednesday , 1996
One Building In the Earth: New and Selected Poems , 2002
Fiction [ edit ]
Gravity Lets You Down , 1997 (short fiction )
Where She Was Standing , 2001
Between Mountains , 2004
Girls Fall Down , 2008
Apocalypse Jazz , 1993
Real Bodies , 2002
See also [ edit ]
References [ edit ]
^ Canadian Forum; Apr2000, Vol. 79 Issue 887, p17, 3p, 1 Black and White Photograph
^ Grekul, Lisa. Canadian Literature, Fall 2005, Issue 186, p193-193, 1/2p
^ City of Toronto, Toronto Book Awards - 2009: Maggie Helwig
^ Jason McBride, "Text in the City", Toronto Life , April 2008; 42,4; CBCA Complete
^ Canadian Literature; Spring 2009, Issue 200, p152-154, 3p
^ Curriculum vitae, Maggie Helwig Archived 14 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine ; see also Oberon Press website, "All titles" . Retrieved 28 December 2010.
^ Interview by Annie Wilson Archived 17 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine , Published in Pulse Niagara, 7–13 August 2008. Retrieved 28 December 2010.
^ Kauri, Vidya (3 May 2012). "Two Priests and a Minister Ticketed for Trying to Set Up a Chapel Tent at Occupy Rally" . National Post . Toronto. Retrieved 2 May 2019 .
^ Cole, Susan G. (24 February 2012). "Girls Fall Down, the Library's One Book for 2012" . Now . Toronto. Retrieved 2 May 2019 .
^ Sison, Marites N. (8 May 2012). "Taking Prayer to the Streets" . Anglican Journal . Toronto. Retrieved 2 May 2019 .
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