He has published poems in various literary journals, including Triquarterly, New York Quarterly, North American Review, New Orleans Review, and River Styx. He has recently won two national contests, one for a full-length poetry manuscript (Logan House Press) and another for a chapbook (Pecan Grove Press). Hunley is also the author of Teaching Poetry Writing: A Five-Canon Approach (Multilingual Matters LTD. 2007).