Sterling is a short run literary journal where "All Stories Matter." Our latest issue, #5, features 28 original poems, stories and graphic tales from writers around the world, as well as pieces created for the journal through a writing workshop in Toronto.

We're launching this issue with a free event at Ben McNally Books, which CNN has called "the most beautiful bookstore in North America."

Elements of this issue are lightly themed around Minneapolis. Representing the Twin Cities are: illustrator Bill Ferenc, cover art; Pulitzer Prize-nominated author Marya Hornbacher, our first-ever Guest Editor; and a feature interview with Dan Ibarra of Aesthetic Apparatus, a commercial art and printmaking studio.

Reading, snacks & refreshments are free; journals will be available for purchase. Hope to see you there!