Alice Maria Glenday (c. 1920–7 November 2004)[1] was a New Zealand novelist, short-story writer and playwright.
In 1969 she was the first woman to receive the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Award for her short story "One Fine Day".
[2] She started writing in the mid-1950s, after her husband remarked that her letters home to Canada could fill a book,[3] and her first short story was published in the Toronto Star Weekly.
[12] A review in newspaper The Press said Glenday demonstrates "the same firm artistic control of her material which characterises her stories", concluding it was "a remarkable first novel, perceptive in its exploration of a family's relationships, and with an impressive fusion of all the elements of a novel into a compelling whole".
[3] By 1969 she was a widow,[2] and in 1973 she was described by The Press as "exud[ing] a need for privacy, one which is threatened by the very publicity that allows her to concentrate on her writing".