Maggie Helwig | |
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 Helwig in 2012 | |
| Born | 1961 (age 62–63) Wallasey, England |
| Nationality | Canadian |
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| Parent | David Helwig |
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| Language | English |
| Period | 1981–present |
| Ecclesiastical career | |
| Religion | Christianity (Anglican) |
| Church | Anglican Church of Canada |
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Congregations served | Church of St Stephen-in-the-Fields, Toronto |
| Website | maggiehelwig |
Maggie Helwig (born 1961) is a Canadian poet, novelist, social justice activist, and Anglican priest.
Her early education was at Kingston Collegiate and Vocational Institute in Kingston, Ontario, graduating in 1979, [1] then at 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.
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] Jason McBride, writing in Toronto Life , described it as being "smart, suspenseful and compassionate." [4] Finally, in a book review by 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]
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] She was also a well known advocate for Toronto's branch of the 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]
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