Caustic Frolic

Caustic Frolic a playfully abrasive journal. Caustic Frolic is a journey through the frenetic landscape of our times.

A flourish which rips through reality with the force of acid, teasing out the new and emerging and rethinking the old. Caustic Frolic embraces playfulness with an abrasive intent to change, to revel, to engage.

Meet our Co-Editor-in-Chief Harry Huang! Harry earned his B.S. in Security and Risk Analysis at Penn State. He now works...
03/23/2023

Meet our Co-Editor-in-Chief Harry Huang! Harry earned his B.S. in Security and Risk Analysis at Penn State. He now works in product management and is pursuing his M.A. in Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement at NYU. His research interests involve the impact of social, political, and environmental policies on underserved communities. His short stories have been published in the Stringybark and Youth Imagination webzines. And his personal essay How Are You Doing? recently placed in the top ten of the Writer’s Digest Personal Essay Competition.

To everyone who submitted, thank you so much. We appreciate every one of you. Our team has begun reviewing submissions a...
03/21/2023

To everyone who submitted, thank you so much. We appreciate every one of you. Our team has begun reviewing submissions and will release decisions by April.

We wish all applicants the best of luck!

We want to hear from you! Today is the last day Caustic Frolic is accepting submissions for our Spring 2023 issue, Dista...
03/11/2023

We want to hear from you! Today is the last day Caustic Frolic is accepting submissions for our Spring 2023 issue, Distant.

Submit your works to [email protected] by 11:59pm EST tonight. Visit causticfrolic.org/submission-info/ for submission details.

How does distance inspire you? Submit your art, poetry, fiction and non-fiction pieces by 11:59 PM on March 11th 🖊 ...
03/09/2023

How does distance inspire you? Submit your art, poetry, fiction and non-fiction pieces by 11:59 PM on March 11th 🖊

Meet our Co-Editor-in-Chief! Lore Skoulatos is a writer and artist from New York. Her artwork was showcased in galleries...
03/06/2023

Meet our Co-Editor-in-Chief! Lore Skoulatos is a writer and artist from New York. Her artwork was showcased in galleries in NYC and the great metro area. Before receiving her BA in Philosophy from Adelphi University in 2019, Skoulatos was in the fashion-art industry and was a model and brand spokesperson featured in Mashable, Snapchat, Vanity Fair, TLC, and various art photography collections. Currently she is pursuing her masters in Interdisciplinary Studies at NYU focusing on the metaphysics of personal identity and narrativity surrounding women characters in myth and folklore retellings. She is currently working on her first fantasy novel and a mythology based poetry collection.
Don’t forget to submit by 11th March at [email protected] 🖊

Anxious. Can’t SleepBy Ally Riddle, a first year XE student.Don’t forget to submit your non-fiction pieces by March 11th...
03/01/2023

Anxious. Can’t Sleep
By Ally Riddle, a first year XE student.
Don’t forget to submit your non-fiction pieces by March 11th :)

Meet our Senior Editor for Fiction! Michael is a writer and comedian from Chicago, IL, whose passions lie in investigati...
02/27/2023

Meet our Senior Editor for Fiction! Michael is a writer and comedian from Chicago, IL, whose passions lie in investigating the ways in which storytelling and humor can criticize accepted norms and institutions while also spurring political and social action. He holds a bachelor of arts in narrative studies from the University of Southern California and is currently pursuing an M.A. in interdisciplinary studies through NYU’s XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement program. You can often find him performing stand-up around the tri-state area, procrastinating working on his debut novel, or devouring an almond croissant in Washington Square Park.
Don’t forget to submit to [email protected] by March 11th 🖊

We’re seeking art and non-fiction submissions for our Spring 2023 edition. There is almost two weeks left for you to sub...
02/24/2023

We’re seeking art and non-fiction submissions for our Spring 2023 edition. There is almost two weeks left for you to submit to Caustic Frolic. All submissions must be sent to [email protected] by March 11th, 11:59 PM.

Meet our Senior Editor for Poetry! Dan got a B.S. in English Literature at the University of Colorado: Boulder. He is no...
02/21/2023

Meet our Senior Editor for Poetry! Dan got a B.S. in English Literature at the University of Colorado: Boulder. He is now getting an M.A in Interdisciplinary Studies at XE at NYU. His research interest is experimental writing. He is also an aspiring DIY music artist, with a bunch of self-recorded, self-published albums on Spotify (they’re mostly punk). In his free time he likes writing music, recording music, writing poetry, playing Call of Duty, walking around and listening to music, taking pictures, etc.
Don’t forget to submit by March 11th to [email protected] 🖊

if [empty] were a (space)Alex BastianiniAlex Bastianini is, currently, a MA student at Carnegie Mellon University and an...
02/17/2023

if [empty] were a (space)
Alex Bastianini

Alex Bastianini is, currently, a MA student at Carnegie Mellon University and an occasional poet. Other works by Alex have appeared in Adelaide Literary Magazine and Teach. Write.: A Writing Teachers’ Literary Journal.
Don’t forget to submit by March 11th at [email protected] 🖊

Meet our Senior Editor for Art! Hazel Ma was born and raised in China. She received her B.A. at St. John’s College (on b...
02/14/2023

Meet our Senior Editor for Art! Hazel Ma was born and raised in China. She received her B.A. at St. John’s College (on both campuses in Annapolis and Santa Fe) in Liberal Arts with a focus on the Western Canon. During her undergrad years, she published a series of short stories in Chinese, which she is re-editing while translating. Now she is in the masters program at NYU‘s XE. Her research interests are creative writing and religious philosophies. She is working on a collection of bilingual poetry with ecological and Buddhism underpinnings.
Don’t forget to submit to [email protected] by March 11th 🖊 🎨

Order and Chaos – How would we know what light was if darkness didn’t exist?by Emma Kendall, Fall 2022 About the Artist ...
02/10/2023

Order and Chaos – How would we know what light was if darkness didn’t exist?
by Emma Kendall, Fall 2022

About the Artist

I graduated from Textile Design at Bucks New Uni UK with a 1st in 2016. I went straight to London to pursue a career in design, aiming to intern with a big designer fashion brand, and then work my way up from the bottom. Quickly I became disillusioned with the fashion world and my place within it, and trained to be a personal trainer, so that I could continue my own freelance artistic practice on the side. Before and between Covid lockdowns I painted several murals, before I succumbed to the temptation to ‘get a normal job’ and my creative artistic practices have been put on the back burner. I was inspired by Caustic Frolic’s call for submission email to have a spontaneous crack at drawing again, especially since the theme resonated significantly with my interests in this crazy time. Thank you Caustic Frolic for your work and this brief, giving me the inspiration to draw again!
Don’t forget to submit your art pieces by March 11th to [email protected] 🎨

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