Aforementioned Productions is an American independent production company and small press, founded in early 2005 by poet Randolph Pfaff and writer Carissa Halston.
| Company type | Literary, Theatrical |
|---|---|
| Founded | Massachusetts, US (2005) |
| Headquarters | Boston |
Key people | Carissa Halston, Randolph Pfaff |
| Website | aforementionedproductions.com |
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 Carissa Halston (Editor-in-Chief), Randolph Pfaff (Senior Editor), and Molly Mary McLaughlin (Assistant Editor).[2] From 2010–2014, they produced Literary Firsts, a quarterly multi-genre reading series in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2014, Aforementioned began publishing full-length collections of fiction, essays, and poems.
Theatrical productions
edit- 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]
- White Rabbit Red Rabbit by Nassim Soleimanpour at OBERON (Cambridge, November 2016)[6]
- Marathon reading of It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis at Brookline Booksmith (Brookline, March–April 2017)[7]
Reading series
edit- Literary Firsts (Cambridge, MA, 2010-2014)[8]
Publications
edit- apt, literary journal (2005-) ISSN 2159-2446 (print), ISSN 1555-9505 (online)
- 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
- Afforded Permanence by Liam Day (December 2014) 978-1-941143-01-8
- Anatomies by Susan McCarty (June 2015) ISBN 978-1-941143-03-2
- How Her Spirit Got Out by Krysten Hill (December 2016) ISBN 978-1-941143-08-7
Awards
edit- Underlife and Portico by Michael Lynch - Recipient of the 2013 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize from The New England Poetry Club[9]
- Afforded Permanence by Liam Day - Finalist for the 2015 Massachusetts Book Award in Poetry[10]
- How Her Spirit Got Out by Krysten Hill - Recipient of the 2017 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize from The New England Poetry Club[11]
References
edit- ^ "Aforementioned Productions". ENTROPY. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
- ^ "The Review Review". Archived from the original on 20 July 2012. Retrieved 20 July 2012.
- ^ "Cleavage: 5 One Act Plays By Carissa Halston (Closed September 17, 2005) | Boston | reviews, cast and info". Theatermania.com. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
- ^ "Carissa Halston in Portraiture| 09.25.2009". Archived from the original on 30 November 2010. Retrieved 8 May 2012.
- ^ "Fringe Festival gives 'edgy' artists their star turns | Dorchester Reporter". Dotnews.com. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
- ^ "A.R.T. - American Repertory Theater". Americanrepertorytheater.org. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
- ^ "OVERNIGHT, UNDER DURESS: A MARATHON READING OF A SINCLAIR LEWIS CLASSIC IN LIGHT OF EMERGING FASCISM". DigBoston.com. 21 March 2017. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
- ^ "Literary Firsts". Lf.aforementionedproductions.com. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 27 January 2014. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Massachusetts Center for the Book". Facebook.com. Retrieved 30 October 2017.
- ^ "2017 Contest Results – New England Poetry Club". Nepoetryclub.org. Retrieved 30 October 2017.