Trent Lewin
@trentlewin.bsky.social
Writer. Distinguished Story in Best American Short Stories 2025. Published by Boulevard, december, The Lascaux Review, the New Ohio Review, Grain, The New Quarterly. Working on a novel and a short story collection. Bring me wine. Find me at trentlewin.com.
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Trent Lewin
@trentlewin.bsky.social
· Oct 24
Congratulations to Boulevard contributor Trent Lewin, whose short story "The Reach" was honored as a Distinguished Story of 2024 in this year's Best American Short Stories Anthology!
Read "The Reach" online at our site: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/the-r...
Read "The Reach" online at our site: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/the-r...
That's a really really wonderful honour!
I transcribed some writing advice from the latest edition of FreeFall into this post, as the advice came from a judge and I think it's particularly good. It's worth perusing. If you manage to get your hands on Volume 35 Number 2 of FreeFall, I have 2 stories in there.
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I Do Whimsy - FreeFall • Trent Lewin
I just got my hardcopies of Volume 35 Number 2 of FreeFall (Fall 2025). I have two stories in this. 'Still Me, Still You', which shares third place in the
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November 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I transcribed some writing advice from the latest edition of FreeFall into this post, as the advice came from a judge and I think it's particularly good. It's worth perusing. If you manage to get your hands on Volume 35 Number 2 of FreeFall, I have 2 stories in there.
trentlewin.com/2025/11/21/i...
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Some are like water, some are like the heat
Some are a melody and some are the beat
Thank you, #alphaville. I think I finally get it.
Some are a melody and some are the beat
Thank you, #alphaville. I think I finally get it.
November 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Some are like water, some are like the heat
Some are a melody and some are the beat
Thank you, #alphaville. I think I finally get it.
Some are a melody and some are the beat
Thank you, #alphaville. I think I finally get it.
Freedom is still a thing.
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Freedom is still a thing.
I don't want to be an outlier writer, to be honest.
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I don't want to be an outlier writer, to be honest.
Very grateful to @newohioreview.bsky.social for putting this story forward!
We're proud to announce our nominees for the Pushcart Prize this year!
November 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Very grateful to @newohioreview.bsky.social for putting this story forward!
For one moment, we get to ignore the politics. We get to bypass the madness that people enact, and go back to a game that we played as kids. I'm grateful for that. I'm grateful for stories. My reflections on what happened in game seven of the World Series last night.
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Baseball is the One Game that Can Make You Cry • Trent Lewin
Baseball is the one game that can make you cry. Sports are a funny tradition of on-the-fly stories built up during a game or a match, heightening tension,
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November 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
For one moment, we get to ignore the politics. We get to bypass the madness that people enact, and go back to a game that we played as kids. I'm grateful for that. I'm grateful for stories. My reflections on what happened in game seven of the World Series last night.
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Super excited to be listed as a Distinguished Story in 'The Best American Short Stories' for 2025.
I figure I'm just getting rolling... that I have a lot more to say... but this is really wonderful, and I love guest editor Celeste Ng's writing advice:
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I figure I'm just getting rolling... that I have a lot more to say... but this is really wonderful, and I love guest editor Celeste Ng's writing advice:
trentlewin.com/2025/10/26/d...
Distinguished Story in 'The Best American Short Stories 2025' • Trent Lewin
Excited to have a ‘Distinguished Story’ in The Best American Short Stories anthology for 2025. What’s this mean? The story is not published in the anthology.
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October 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Super excited to be listed as a Distinguished Story in 'The Best American Short Stories' for 2025.
I figure I'm just getting rolling... that I have a lot more to say... but this is really wonderful, and I love guest editor Celeste Ng's writing advice:
trentlewin.com/2025/10/26/d...
I figure I'm just getting rolling... that I have a lot more to say... but this is really wonderful, and I love guest editor Celeste Ng's writing advice:
trentlewin.com/2025/10/26/d...
That's a really really wonderful honour!
Congratulations to Boulevard contributor Trent Lewin, whose short story "The Reach" was honored as a Distinguished Story of 2024 in this year's Best American Short Stories Anthology!
Read "The Reach" online at our site: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/the-r...
Read "The Reach" online at our site: www.boulevardmagazine.org/read-1/the-r...
October 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM
That's a really really wonderful honour!
Hello folks, have created a post about a couple of recent contest wins via @freefallmagazine.bsky.social in their prose contest! Thank you, FreeFall! This is incredibly meaningful, especially because these stories are at the polar opposite edges of what I write.
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FreeFall Literary Magazine 2025 Contest Wins • Trent Lewin
Grateful to have won 3rd place in the FreeFall Literary Magazine Prose contest, and to be winner of the Lynn Fraser Memorial Award. I wanted to talk about the
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October 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Hello folks, have created a post about a couple of recent contest wins via @freefallmagazine.bsky.social in their prose contest! Thank you, FreeFall! This is incredibly meaningful, especially because these stories are at the polar opposite edges of what I write.
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I mean, is this how people felt when they saw Babe Ruth play? I think maybe so. Ohtani is legend.
October 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I mean, is this how people felt when they saw Babe Ruth play? I think maybe so. Ohtani is legend.
I promise, I'm not paid to support any movie, but I am going to go out of my way to support this one. It was fun, it was different, it had some important themes, and I totally dug it:
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Tron: Ares IS the movie of the year • Trent Lewin
Tron: Ares is the best movie I’ve seen all year. There, I said that completely improbable statement, but I did so with utter seriousness. Previously, I had
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October 13, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I promise, I'm not paid to support any movie, but I am going to go out of my way to support this one. It was fun, it was different, it had some important themes, and I totally dug it:
trentlewin.com/2025/10/12/t...
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Tron: Ares is a worth being mentioned in the same breath as Blade Runner. And it's incredibly entertaining, so go see it. In a movie theatre, because it needs that space.
#tronares
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#tronares
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Tron: Ares IS the movie of the year • Trent Lewin
Tron: Ares is the best movie I’ve seen all year. There, I said that completely improbable statement, but I did so with utter seriousness. Previously, I had
trentlewin.com
October 12, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Tron: Ares is a worth being mentioned in the same breath as Blade Runner. And it's incredibly entertaining, so go see it. In a movie theatre, because it needs that space.
#tronares
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#tronares
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Watching baseball, reflecting on the day's events, and on a tough night... this is what I came up with.
I have a question for you.
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I have a question for you.
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Intruder • Trent Lewin
I woke up at 3:30 am. There was a noise downstairs. Plastic rustling and maybe a drawer being closed.
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October 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Watching baseball, reflecting on the day's events, and on a tough night... this is what I came up with.
I have a question for you.
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I have a question for you.
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The best band in the world? Wolf Alice. Argue with me if you want, but I saw their concert in Toronto on September 23rd, and there's simply no arguing the fact anymore.
I have a comparator band to them... controversial comparison, but there you have it.
#wolfalice
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I have a comparator band to them... controversial comparison, but there you have it.
#wolfalice
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Wolf Alice Establishes Themselves as the Greatest Band in the World • Trent Lewin
Wolf Alice is the greatest band in the world. I suspected this but didn’t fully get it until I saw them in Toronto on September 23rd, 2025, at History. Yes,
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September 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The best band in the world? Wolf Alice. Argue with me if you want, but I saw their concert in Toronto on September 23rd, and there's simply no arguing the fact anymore.
I have a comparator band to them... controversial comparison, but there you have it.
#wolfalice
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I have a comparator band to them... controversial comparison, but there you have it.
#wolfalice
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I was just waiting for this not to hurt.
Wolf Alice
Says every single writer in the world at one point or another, no matter what you do or how you do it or how often you get to do it.
Wolf Alice
Says every single writer in the world at one point or another, no matter what you do or how you do it or how often you get to do it.
August 28, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I was just waiting for this not to hurt.
Wolf Alice
Says every single writer in the world at one point or another, no matter what you do or how you do it or how often you get to do it.
Wolf Alice
Says every single writer in the world at one point or another, no matter what you do or how you do it or how often you get to do it.
Bloom, baby. Bloom.
August 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Bloom, baby. Bloom.
Reposted by Trent Lewin
👏 Nice to see @mpaxson.bsky.social in the spotlight on the Indiosyncrasy site:
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Mark Paxson's Author Spotlight - Indiosyncrasy
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August 26, 2025 at 2:02 AM
👏 Nice to see @mpaxson.bsky.social in the spotlight on the Indiosyncrasy site:
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It's the day of the wolf.
Wolf Alice has released their new album. They are best band in the world, and have been for a decade now.
This is my take on the album after a single listening. My thoughts will evolve with multiple listenings, no doubt.
trentlewin.com/2025/08/22/a...
Wolf Alice has released their new album. They are best band in the world, and have been for a decade now.
This is my take on the album after a single listening. My thoughts will evolve with multiple listenings, no doubt.
trentlewin.com/2025/08/22/a...
A Review of Wolf Alice's 'The Clearing' after One Listening • Trent Lewin
Why would I post a review of Wolf Alice's 'The Clearing' after one listening? Because I wanted to see how I felt immediately. I got into Wolf Alice on the
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August 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
It's the day of the wolf.
Wolf Alice has released their new album. They are best band in the world, and have been for a decade now.
This is my take on the album after a single listening. My thoughts will evolve with multiple listenings, no doubt.
trentlewin.com/2025/08/22/a...
Wolf Alice has released their new album. They are best band in the world, and have been for a decade now.
This is my take on the album after a single listening. My thoughts will evolve with multiple listenings, no doubt.
trentlewin.com/2025/08/22/a...
Definitely going to go back here one day, because there's nothing else quite like it that I've ever seen. A truly truly unique, almost unbelievable country: trentlewin.com/2025/08/12/a...
A Chunk of Ice Slips Down the Glacier to the Black Beach • Trent Lewin
Yes, a chunk of ice slips down the glacier to the black beach, as though these are common things. My previous post on Iceland.
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August 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Definitely going to go back here one day, because there's nothing else quite like it that I've ever seen. A truly truly unique, almost unbelievable country: trentlewin.com/2025/08/12/a...
Still chugging around this country. A follow up post describing the east and south coasts in a few days.
I'm far from home, circling a country in a van, clockwise. Always clockwise. If you're going to go far, go in a clockwise direction, otherwise you may become lost, or be snatched by the wind. I'm no great photographer, but here's what I got.
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Borgarnes and the Settlement Centre • Trent Lewin
We never made it to Borgarnes and the Settlement Centre. What would have been the point? What’s interesting about Iceland is that it’s new. There was never an
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August 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Still chugging around this country. A follow up post describing the east and south coasts in a few days.
I'm far from home, circling a country in a van, clockwise. Always clockwise. If you're going to go far, go in a clockwise direction, otherwise you may become lost, or be snatched by the wind. I'm no great photographer, but here's what I got.
trentlewin.com/2025/08/04/b...
trentlewin.com/2025/08/04/b...
Borgarnes and the Settlement Centre • Trent Lewin
We never made it to Borgarnes and the Settlement Centre. What would have been the point? What’s interesting about Iceland is that it’s new. There was never an
trentlewin.com
August 4, 2025 at 9:53 AM
I'm far from home, circling a country in a van, clockwise. Always clockwise. If you're going to go far, go in a clockwise direction, otherwise you may become lost, or be snatched by the wind. I'm no great photographer, but here's what I got.
trentlewin.com/2025/08/04/b...
trentlewin.com/2025/08/04/b...
Hi all, a bit of writing news re: The New Ohio Review, where I'm the winner of their 2025 annual contest for fiction. Some words about the story, and a potential giveaway!, at this link:
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Winner of the 2025 New Ohio Review Annual Contest • Trent Lewin
A story called 'Ghee' is the winner of the 2025 New Ohio Review Annual Contest. Super happy about that, for a couple of reasons. First, there is nothing
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July 31, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Hi all, a bit of writing news re: The New Ohio Review, where I'm the winner of their 2025 annual contest for fiction. Some words about the story, and a potential giveaway!, at this link:
trentlewin.com/2025/07/31/w...
trentlewin.com/2025/07/31/w...
Saw #WolfAlice in Toronto tonight at a free concert, and it was sublime. A few thoughts and some photos (including a seemingly-random sofa, until you realize that it's not random at all):
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Wolf Alice Toronto - Free Show • Trent Lewin
Wolf Alice played Toronto! Of all the things I really don't have time to do, one is driving through traffic into Toronto during rush hour. It takes forever.
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July 30, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Saw #WolfAlice in Toronto tonight at a free concert, and it was sublime. A few thoughts and some photos (including a seemingly-random sofa, until you realize that it's not random at all):
trentlewin.com/2025/07/29/w...
trentlewin.com/2025/07/29/w...