'If ever there was a moment when while working on this year’s edition of FESS we never once had to ask ourselves – stay or go – it was the one when we chose Wales to be our guest of honor! Deborah Kay Davies, Jon Gower, Owen Martell and Rachel Trezise will work their short story magic and show you why!'

Read more about this year's festival by director and writer, Roman Simić.

Keep an eye out for our Postcard from Zagreb feature, to come soon, by Jon Gower.

We look forward to receiving in return Croatian poets this autumn. They will work with Welsh poets in a creative translation workshop leading up to the second edition of The North Wales International Poetry Festival.

Wales's presence at the festival is organised in partnership with Wales Literature Exchange and Literature Across Frontiers and supported by Wales Arts International.