| Year | Title | Publisher | Prize Amount | Judges |
| 2025 | The Book of Alice | Scribner Books | $5,000 | Tyree Daye |
| Donika Kelly | ||||
| Richie Hofmann |
Diamond Forde is a Black poet and the author of The Book of Alice (Scribner, 2026), winner of the 2025 James Laughlin Award, and Mother Body (Saturnalia Books, 2021), winner of the 2019 Saturnalia Poetry Prize.