Zadar, Croatia

I've spent time at ZiN on a couple of occasions, but certainly the key visit that influenced and shaped my literary path was my first residency there, in August of 2011. At the time I was an unpublished author and apart from my huge desire to creatively express myself, I didn't have enough finished work to show. Nevertheless, at ZiN I found not only a fantastically enticing working environment, but a place where I've learned about the meaning of literature and the role and responsibility of an author in creating the wider cultural setting. The ideas and thoughts that I formed then in Ližnjan have become an inseparable part of my literary and writerly identity.

Chicago, USA

Every morning during my stay at Zvona i Nari, I made myself a cup of tea, sat on my porch, drank in the view of vineyards, olive trees, and the town beyond, and began to work. Every day, I worked all day. The beauty of the town and its surroundings, the library itself, so extensive and eclectic, the stimulating intellectual discussions... all this was wonderfully conducive to good work. I came home afterwards and wrote for a year straight on the high.

Ližnjan, Croatia

We often do not see much that was given to us. But, when we start changing inside and begin to accept life as a gift, then life makes sure to bring good things our way. My encounter with ZVONA i NARI wasn't by chance. The writers  will find here an open door and an invitation to comradeship, creativity, freedom and togetherness. After a long period of not giving my own writing the attention it deserves, I'm back to it, I'm back to my first love.

Vukovar, Croatia

I was at ZiN in 2014. as a participant of the Bibliokamp, a gathering of volunteers whose goal was to help organize the beautiful library. Despite engaging work, there was time enough to go swimming, to visit Pula Film Festival and to talk to writers like Tomica Šćavina from Zagreb, Josip Pip Škifić from Ližnjan and Ana Božičević and Sophia Le Fraga from New York.