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. Current staff of ''apt'' includes Carissa Halston (Editor-in-Chief), Randolph Pfaff (Senior Editor), and Molly Mary McLaughlin (Assistant Editor). From 2010–2014, they produced Literary Firsts, a quarterly multi-genre reading series in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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. In 2014, Aforementioned began publishing full-length collections of fiction, essays, and poems.
Theatrical productions
*''Cleavage'' (Boston, September 2005)
*''Portraiture'' (New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Toronto, Boston, September 2009)
*''The Daughters,'' a staged reading for the Dorchester Fringe Festival (Boston, May 2013)
*''White Rabbit Red Rabbit'' by
Nassim Soleimanpour
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Early life and education
Soleimanpour was born in Tehran, Iran.[It Can't Happen Here
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'' by
Sinclair Lewis
Harry Sinclair Lewis (February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. In 1930 Nobel Prize in Literature, 1930, he became the first author from the United States (and the first from the America ...
at Brookline Booksmith (Brookline, March–April 2017)
Reading series
* Literary Firsts (Cambridge, MA, 2010-2014)
Publications
*''apt'', literary journal (2005-) ISSN 2159-2446 (print), ISSN 1555-9505 (online)
*''They Used to Dance on Saturday Nights'' by Gillian Devereux (August 2011)
*''Underlife and Portico'' by Michael Lynch (2nd ed - March 2013) , (1st ed - August 2009)
*''That's When the Knives Come Down'' by Dolan Morgan (August 2014)
*''Afforded Permanence'' by Liam Day (December 2014) 978-1-941143-01-8
*''Anatomies'' by Susan McCarty (June 2015)
*''How Her Spirit Got Out'' by Krysten Hill (December 2016)
Awards
*''Underlife and Portico'' by Michael Lynch - Recipient of the 2013 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize from The New England Poetry Club
*''Afforded Permanence'' by Liam Day - Finalist for the 2015
Massachusetts Book Award
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in Poetry
*''How Her Spirit Got Out'' by Krysten Hill - Recipient of the 2017 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize from The New England Poetry Club
References
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External links
aptNelly Reifler interviews Dolan Morgan at ''The Believer''Review of ''apt'' at Necessary Fiction*
ttp://www.newpages.com/literary-magazine-reviews/2011-08-30/#apt-v2-i1-2011 NewPages reviews the first print issue of ''apt''
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