In April 2026, author Maggie Helwig joined us at One City for a conversation about her book, Encampment, which explores her lifelong activism and her fight to keep her churchyard open to people in need of a home.

In this podcast episode, Auden Palmer interviews Maggie about her book, followed by questions from the audience. This episode was recorded live at the event.

Maggie Helwig (she/they) is a white settler in Tkaronto/Toronto, and is the author of fifteen books and chapbooks, including Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and an Unhoused Community, which was awarded the 2025 Toronto Book Award, and Girls Fall Down (Coach House Books, 2008), which was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award and chosen as the One Book Toronto in 2012. Helwig is a long-time social justice activist, and also an Anglican priest, and has been the rector of the Church of St. Stephen-in-the-Fields since 2012 (excerpt from Indigo.com)