8 March 2011 marks the first hundred years of International Women’s Day. In recognition of the centenary, Women for Women International teamed up with Authors for Peace, with founder and novelist Priya Basil organising a recording of messages from international women – a ‘Literary Bridge’. The Literary Bridge is part of Women for Women International’s ‘Join me on the Bridge’ campaign, a call to unite women worldwide in a symbolic movement showing that women will build the bridges of peace and development for the future. On 8 March 2011, almost 300 ‘Join Me on the Bridge’ events will be taking place in 48 countries.
Isobel Dixon took part in the Literary Bridge recordings along with writers Fatima Bhutto, Priya Basil, Domnica Radulescu, and Women for Women International’s founder Zainab Salbi, among others, as they considered what women have achieved, economically, politically and socially, in the last 100 years, and also how much more remains to be done. Part of Isobel’s recording includes a short poem written for the event, ‘The Balancers’.
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Isobel Dixon is the author of A Fold in the Map. Her new collection The Tempest Prognosticator will be out from Salt in July.
