Writing A ward

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32114, 9 October 1969, Page 2

Writing A ward

Mrs Alice Glenday of Palmerston North has won the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Award sponsored by the Bank of New Zealand in association with the New Zealand Women Writers* Society. Mrs Glenday, a Canadian, met her late husband, a New Zealander serving with the Royal Air Force, during the war years and after a period in the United Kingdom they returned to New Zealand in 1949. She started writing 15 years ago and her first short story was accepted by the “Toronto Star Weekly.” Later her stories were published in several New Zealand women’s magazines and a London literary agent, who noticed her stories in an English magazine, arranged for his New York associate to place her work In the United States. He has sold serial rights to the Scandinavian countries, Italy, South Africa and the Netherlands. Mrs Glenday is also interested in play writing and has had some success in the British Drama League festivals as well as with the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation. She has an adult family and enjoys gardening and the theatre.