Aforementioned Productions

Aforementioned Productions is an American independent production company and small press, founded in early 2005 by poet Randolph Pfaff and writer Carissa Halston.

Their literary journal, apt, was published online through 2010, but moved to a hybrid print/online format in 2011.^[1] Current staff of apt includes Randolph Pfaff (editor), Carissa Halston (editor), J.F. Lynch (visual arts editor), and Robin E. Mork (associate editor).^[2] In 2010, they began producing Literary Firsts, a quarterly reading series in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Theatrical productions

• Cleavage (Boston, September 2005)^[3]
• Portraiture (New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Toronto, Boston, September 2009)^[4]
• The Daughters, a staged reading for the Dorchester Fringe Festival (Boston, May 2013)^[5]

Reading Series

• Literary Firsts (Cambridge, MA, 2010-)^[6]

Publications

• apt, literary journal (2005-) ISSN 2159-2446 (print), ISSN 1555-9505 (online)
• A Girl Named Charlie Lester (September 2007) ISBN 0-615-16546-X
• They Used to Dance on Saturday Nights by Gillian Devereux (August 2011) ISBN 978-0-9823741-4-6
• Underlife and Portico by Michael Lynch (2nd ed - March 2013) ISBN 978-0-9823741-8-4, (1st ed - August 2009) ISBN 978-0-9823741-0-8
• That's When the Knives Come Down by Dolan Morgan (August 2014) ISBN 978-1-941143-00-1

Awards

• Underlife and Portico by Michael Lynch - Recipient of the 2013 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize from The New England Poetry Club ^[7]

External links

• apt
• Kirkus Reviews on A Girl Named Charlie Lester
• Review of apt at Necessary Fiction
• The Boston Globe interviews Carissa Halston about Literary Firsts
• NewPages reviews the first print issue of apt

References