Curriculum vitae: Maggie Helwig
BA (Honours), Classical Studies: Latin and Greek languages and literature, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada, 1983
Master of Divinity (Honours), Trinity College, Toronto School of Theology, 2011 (Thesis: “Let the body do the body does: Gregory of Nyssa in dialogue with contemporary theologians, 1985-2008”)
- Girls Fall Down, Coach House Books, April 2008: novel
- Between Mountains, Knopf Canada (Canada), Chatto and Windus (UK), 2004: novel
- One Building In the Earth: New and Selected Poems, ECW Press, 2002: poetry
- Real Bodies, Oberon Press, 2002: essays
- Where She Was Standing, ECW Press, 2001: novel
- Gravity Lets You Down, Oberon Press, 1997: short fiction
- The City on Wednesday, Lowlife Publishing, 1996: poetry chapbook
- Eating Glass, Quarry Press, 1994: poetry
- Apocalypse Jazz, Oberon Press, 1993: essays
- Graffiti for J.J. Harper, Lowlife Publishing, 1992: poetry chapbook
- Talking Prophet Blues, Quarry Press, 1991: poetry
- Because the Gunman, Lowlife Publishing, 1990: poetry chapbook
- Eden, Oberon Press, 1989: poetry
- Tongues of Men and Angels, Oberon Press, 1987: poetry
- Walking Through Fire, Turnstone Press, 1983: poetry
- Speaking in Tongues: PEN Canada Writers in Exile, Banff Centre Press, 2005
- Coming Attractions 02, Oberon Press, 2002 (with Mark Jarman)
- Coming Attractions 01, Oberon Press, 2001
- Coming Attractions 00, Oberon Press, 2000
- Coming Attractions 99, Oberon Press, 1999
- Coming Attractions 98, Oberon Press, 1998
- Coming Attractions 97, Oberon Press, 1997
- Coming Attractions 94, Oberon Press, 1994 (with Douglas Glover)
- 94: Best Canadian Stories, Oberon Press, 1994 (with David Helwig)
- Coming Attractions 93, Oberon Press, 1993 (with Douglas Glover)
- 93: Best Canadian Stories, Oberon Press, 1993 (with David Helwig)
- Coming Attractions 92, Oberon Press, 1992 (with Douglas Glover)
- 92: Best Canadian Stories, Oberon Press, 1992 (with David Helwig)
- Coming Attractions 91, Oberon Press, 1991 (with Douglas Glover)
- 91: Best Canadian Stories, Oberon Press, 1991 (with David Helwig)
- Coming Attractions 90, Oberon Press, 1990 (with David Helwig)
- 90: Best Canadian Stories, Oberon Press, 1990 (with David Helwig)
- Coming Attractions 89, Oberon Press, 1989 (with Bronwen Wallace)
- 89: Best Canadian Stories, Oberon Press, 1989 (with David Helwig)
- Coming Attractions 6, Oberon Press, 1988 (with David Helwig)
- 88: Best Canadian Stories, Oberon Press, 1988 (with David Helwig)
- Coming Attractions 5, Oberon Press, 1987 (with David Helwig)
- 87: Best Canadian Stories, Oberon Press, 1987 (with David Helwig)
- excerpt from “The Other Goldberg Variations”, in City of Words, Cormorant Press, 2009
- untitled story in Very Short Stories, Off Cut Press, 2003
- excerpt from "Little Dead Things" in 100 Poets Against the War (versions 1, 2 and 3), e-anthology from nthposition.com, 2003
- "Epidemics and Elsewhere", in The Common Sky, Three Squares Press, 2003
- "In This Place", in Written in the Skin, Insomniac Press, 1998
- "South America -- Nativity" in Stop and Search, Blue Nose Poets, 1995
- "How Can I Tell You That the World is Round" in The Last Word, Insomniac Press, 1995
- "In Time of Danger" in A Discord of Flags: Canadian Poets Write About the Persian Gulf War, 2nd edition, ed. Steven Heighton, Peter Ormshaw and Michael Redhill, 1992
- "A Second Procession", "The Conversion of St Paul" and "The Secrets of Enoch" in Christian Poetry in Canada, ECW Press, 1989
- "Translation", "Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite Comes to Dinner" and "The Art of the Fugue", in Poets 88, Quarry Press, 1988
- "Certain Notes from Bruegel" and "The Pink Blouse" in Full Moon, Quadrant Editions, 1983
- My essay "Hunger" has been frequently reprinted, in anthologies including Canadian Content, Holt, Rinehart and Winston; The Reader, Harcourt Brace; The Norton Reader; The Quill Reader; and Twist and Shout: A Decade of Feminist Publishing in This Magazine, and is widely used in university and college curricula across North America
- “Downward,” in HTO, Coach House Books, 2008
- "Seasons of the Sacred" (book review) reprinted in Native North American Writers , Gale Research, 1994
- "Women's Poetry" in Carry On Bumping, ed John Metcalf, ECW Press, 1988
- My essay "Tiananmen" is often used in Canadian high school curricula
Acta Victoriana, Antigonish Review, Angel Exhaust (UK), ARC, Canadian Literary Review, Canadian Forum, Canadian Literature, Conspiracy of Silence, Dandelion, Descant, Digger and Christian Anarchist, Fiddlehead, Grain, Greenfield Review (US), Greensboro Review (US), Hook and Ladder, Malahat Review, New Quarterly, Pawn to Infinity, Poetry Toronto, Poetry Canada, Prism, Quarry, Queen Street Quarterly, Queen's Quarterly, Rampike, Stanzas, This Magazine, Toronto Life, Waves, Zymurgy
In translation: Zarez (Croatia)
Angel Exhaust (UK), Brick, Canadian Fiction Magazine, Independent on Sunday Magazine (UK), Peterborough Review, Quarry, Sin Over Tan, Smoke, This Magazine
Brick, Canadian Forum, Canadian Woman Studies, Catholic New Times, Life and Peace Review (Sweden), Magical Blend, Maisonneuve, Ottawa Citizen, Peace News (UK), Poetry Canada, Quarry, what magazine, Numéro Cinq, The Anglican
In translation: ARKzin (Croatia), Ikkevold (Denmark)
The ACTivist, Books in Canada, Catholic New Times, The Globe and Mail, The Nerve, New Statesman and Society (UK), Ottawa Citizen, Peace Magazine, Peace News (UK), This Magazine, Toronto Star, what magazine, Word: Toronto's Literary Calendar
- Girls Fall Down selected as the 2012 "One Book Toronto" by the Toronto Public Library's Keep Toronto Reading program.
- Girls Fall Down shortlisted for 2009 City of Toronto Book Award
- Girls Fall Down shortlisted for 2009 Re-Lit Award.
- NOW Magazine’s Toronto Author of the Year, October 2008
- Distinguished Alumni Award, Trent University, 2006
- Canadian Church Press Award, best narrative, fiction or non-fiction, 2000 for a profile of Pramoedya Ananta Toer published in Catholic New Times
- “South America — Nativity”, joint winner of the Blue Nose Poet of the Year Competition (UK), 1995
- Talking Prophet Blues shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award, 1989
- May 2013 – present:
- Priest-in-charge, Church of Saint Stephen-in-the-Fields, Toronto [www.saintstephens.ca]
- July 2010 – present:
- Chair of Social Justice and Advocacy Committee, Anglican Diocese of Toronto [www.toronto.anglican.ca/parish-life/social-justice-and-advocacy/]
- January 2010 – present:
- Member of Child Poverty Subcommittee of the Social Justice and Advocacy Committee, Anglican Diocese of Toronto
- 2010 – present:
- Judge, with Bill Kennedy, of the annual bpnichol Chapbook Award, formerly administered by the Phoenix Community Works Foundation, now by Meet the Presses
- Fall 2011:
- Curator of “Sacred Music and Social Media” performance installation in Trinity College Chapel, Nuit Blanche 2011
- January – July 2011:
- Juror and event manager for final Scream in High Park mainstage, Scream Literary Festival
- Fall 2010:
- Curator of “Procedures in a Time of Plague,” a multimedia interactive performance installation in Trinity Chapel, Nuit Blanche 2010
- June 2010:
- Primary liturgist for Pride Week liturgy, Trinity College Chapel
- January 2009 – July 2011:
- member of Board of Directors, Scream Literary Festival
- February 2005 – January 2009:
- Associate Director, Scream Literary Festival
- 2008-2011:
- Member of the Meet the Presses small press collective
- Fall 2007:
- Curator of multi-media art and performance exhibition at St Thomas’s, Huron Street, Nuit Blanche 2007
- December – April 2005:
- Member of mainstage artistic jury for Scream in High Park.
- 2001:
- Judge of poetry category, National Magazine Awards
- 1998 – 2003:
- Co-coordinator, with Maria Erskine, of the Toronto Small Press Fair, a twice-yearly gathering of micropublishers, zine publishers, and text-based artists. I was involved in some capacity with the Small Press Fair from 1998, when it was founded, until 2008
- October 1998-August 2000:
- Literary editor of Canadian Forum.
- March 1994 – December 1996:
- Reviews Editor for Peace News , London, England
- 1989 – 1990:
- Editor, Poetry Canada Review.
- 1987 – 1989:
- Associate editor at The Nerve, an indie music newspaper in Toronto.
- 1987 – 1990:
- Contributing editor at what magazine, a monthly magazine of drama, poetry, short fiction, reviews and criticism. what is now recognized as a short-lived but groundbreaking publication that introduced many important new writers and raised the level of critical discourse in Canada significantly.
- 1986 – 1987:
- Associate reviews editor at The Varsity, University of Toronto.
- 1984 – 1987:
- Preliminary reader for Best Canadian Stories
- May 2011 – April 2013:
- Assistant Curate, Church of St Timothy, North Toronto [www.sttimothy.ca]
- January 2005 – May 2011:
- Organizer of Out of the Cold/Out of the Heat meal programme, St Thomas’s Church, Huron St.
- January 2007 – December 2009:
- Parish Outreach Facilitator. Hired by the Anglican Diocese of Toronto to encourage greater involvement by parishes in social justice activities, and movement from a charity model towards more advocacy and solidarity.
- January 2009 – July 2009:
- Research Assistant for Professor Ann Jervis, Toronto School of Theology
- May 2003- December 2004:
- Co-organizer, with Andrea Budgey, of OOTC/OOTH meal programme
- May – October 1999:
- Canadian coordinator of the International Federation for East Timor Observer Project, the largest NGO mission observing the referendum in East Timor.
- June 1998 – September 2001:
- Researcher/Media Liaison with Canadian Action for Indonesia and East Timor.
- February 1994 – April 1996:
- Organising Secretary of the British Coalition for East Timor, London, England.
- January 1991 – December 1993:
- Editor of The ACTivist, a monthly peace and human rights newspaper published by ACT for Disarmament, Toronto.
- 1991 onwards
- — Conducted nonviolence trainings for various peace, environmental, and women’s groups
- November 1990 – December 1993:
- Main office staffer at ACT for Disarmament.
- 1987 – 1988:
- Typesetting manager, The Varsity
- 1985:
- Clerk at Letters Bookstore, Toronto, Canada
- 1983-1984:
- Clerk at The Book Store, Peterborough, Canada
- May 2010 – May 2011:
- Student Co-Head of Divinity Class, Trinity College
- September 2008 – December 2009:
- Chapel coach, Trinity Divinity class.
- 2004-2005:
- Board of Directors, PEN Canada (Member at large)
- 2004- 2006:
- Member of Executive, Trinity-Spadina NDP
- December 1994 – August 2002:
- Council Member, War Resisters’ International; also coordinated Women’s Working Group from 1993 to 1999