The Hackney Literary Awards, sponsored by the Cecil Hackney family of Birmingham, Alabama, were established in 1969. The annual competition awards $5,000 in prizes for poetry and short fiction ($2,500 national and $2,500 state levels: 1st place, $600; 2nd, $400; 3rd, $250); a $5,000 prize is also sponsored by Morris Hackney for an unpublished novel. Only original, unpublished manuscripts may be entered.