[8] She is one of the 39 African writers announced as part of the Africa39 project unveiled by Rainbow, Hay Festival and Bloomsbury Publishing at the London Book Fair 2014.
[15] She started her writing career by telling stories to fellow students at Nkumba Primary and Entebbe Secondary School.
[16] Glaydah's young adult novel, Voice of a Dream,[17][18] won the 2005/2006 Macmillan Writers Prize for Africa-Senior Prize[19][20] She was awarded the 2006 Michael and Marylee Fairbanks International Fellowship to attend the Breadloaf Writers' Conference in Ripton, Vermont, USA.
In fall 2008 she was awarded the title of Honorary Fellow by the International Writers Program (IWP), University of Iowa, USA.
As a participant on Friends of Writing, she is working on her novel Crossing the Bramble Field with mentor Angela Barry.