Aforementioned Productions

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Aforementioned Productions
Type Literary, Theatrical
Founded Massachusetts, US (2005)
Headquarters Boston
Key people
Carissa Halston, Randolph Pfaff
Website aforementionedproductions.com

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

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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

Reading series

Publications

Awards

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