"Oceanside High School author receives national recognition" (Village Soup)

“A published author at age 17 — not very many teens can make that claim. But that is just what Alexa Barstow became last August when a collection of her short stories, ‘Truth Be Cold,’ was published. Now, Barstow has received national accolades for her writing; gold medals in the 2021 Scholastic Awards designating her writing as among ‘the most outstanding works in the nation.’”

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