Maggie Helwig

Uptown Magazine examines two portraits of Toronto from novelists Maggie Helwig (Girls Fall Down) and Austin Clarke (More).

''I started this book years ago, before 9/11,' Helwig says. 'The novel originated before SARS as well, but once SARS happened, I had to write around it.''

Read more at http://www.uptownmag.com/2008-12-18/page3280.aspx.

Congratulations to Maggie Helwig, author of Girls Fall Down, who has been named best Toronto author of 2008 by NOW Magazine.

From the NOW web site:

'Poet, novelist, activist and organizer, Helwig loves this city and gives back to it whenever she can.

In advance of her reading at 4555 Living Arts Space, Maggie Helwig was interviewed by Pulse Niagara this week:

http://www.pulseniagara.com/viewstory.php?storyid=4261

MAGGIE HELWIG
By ANNIE WILSON

Toronto writer Maggie Helwig takes on the modern urban culture of fear and paranoia in her third novel Girls Fall Down.

This Thursday, August 7th, CBC Radio's Here and Now talks to Maggie Helwig, about her novel Girls Fall Down. Mary Ito covers Toronto books and will interview Maggie about how Toronto shaped her new novel and the role the city took in her writing.<!--newline--><!--newline-->Here and Now airs from 3 to 6 p.m. in the Toronto area.<!--newline--><!--newline--><!--newline-->

The latest issue of This Magazine features an amusing article on Canadian Literature's obsession with pain and suffering, with special attention to the work of Michael Ondaatje.

Recently, Dani Couture sat down with Maggie Helwig to discuss her new novel, Girls Fall Down. In an interview that is featured on the Pages Books and Magazines website, Helwig reveals how she found a voice for her schizophrenic character, Derek: <!--newline--><!--newline-->DANI COUTURE: In your novel, you wrote intense dialogue for Derek, Susie’s schizophrenic brother who had disappeared off the grid.