Guinevere Glasfurd's debut novel The Words in My Hand was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2016 and the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Mslexia, The Scotsman, and in a collection from The National Galleries of Scotland. Her work has been funded by grants from Arts Council England and the British Council, and she was one of 10 new writers mentored under the Escalator programme at Writers' Centre Norwich in the UK.
She used her residency at the MacDowell to work on her second novel, a novel of climate change, set in the nineteenth century. In addition, she started a collection of short pieces, inspired by her stay at MacDowell. Whilst in residency, Guinevere was awarded a grant from the Society of Authors in the UK.
