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Award-winning author and priest Maggie Helwig discusses her acclaimed book, Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community, in conversation with Toronto urban affairs columnist Shawn Micallef. Together, they explore housing insecurity, compassion, and the power of community through one of Toronto's most pressing social issues.

 

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The Reverend Canon Maggie Helwig (they/she) is an Anglican priest, the rector of the Church of St Stephen-in-the-Fields, the chair of the Social Justice and Advocacy Committee of the Anglican Diocese of Toronto, and a long-time social justice activist, as well as the author of a number of books of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community (Coach House Books), which won the 2025 Toronto Book Award and the 2026 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing.

 

Shawn Micallef is the author of Frontier City: Toronto on the Verge of Greatness, The Trouble With Brunch: Work Class and the Pursuit of Leisure and Full Frontal TO: Exploring Toronto’s Vernacular Architecture. The updated and expanded edition of his first book, Stroll: Psychogeographic Walking Tours of Toronto, was published in 2024. He’s a Toronto Star columnist, civics instructor at University of Toronto, and a Senior Fellow at Massey College where he was also a 2011-2012 Southam Journalism Fellow. Shawn is a co-founder of Spacing, a magazine about Canadian cities and urban issues. 

 

Books will be available at this event.

Required age: Over 18 years old on the day of the activity

Tags: Fall

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