Latest Release

Treading Water, poems by Constance Hanstedt, Finishing Line Press, 2022

Honorable Mention & Finalist

• Finalist: My poetry manuscript called Coming Up For Air (no publisher yet) was a finalist in the Jesse Bryce Niles Chapbook Contest, The Comstock Review.

• Finalist: My poetry manuscript called Coming Up For Air (no publisher yet) was a finalist in the Blue Light Press chapbook contest.

• The poem "Florian" received an Honorable Mention in Writers Digest's 2023 Annual Poetry Competition.

• The poem "My Mother Died on Earth Day" was named a finalist in the 2023 San Francisco Writers Conference Writing Contest.

• The poem "The Last Time I Saw My Brother" was named a finalist in the 2022 San Francisco Writers Conference Writing Contest.

Published Poems

Four poems were published in Saving Ourselves: An Anthology Advocating for Women & Girls (2025):
”Holding On”, “The Skater”, “Slip Away”, and “After My Daughter moved to L.A.”

“Wings”, California State Poetry Society, Winter 2025

“Radiation”, 1 in 8: An Anthology for Those Affected by Breast Cancer (2025)

"My Mother Died on Earth Day",  San Francisco Writers Conference 2023 Writing Contest Anthology

"After My Daughter Moved to L.A.", Redwood Writers Literary Review 2023

"Lost", San Francisco Writers Conference 2021 Writing Contest Anthology

"Letting Go" and "Holding On", California Writers Club 2021 Literary Review