Winners of the John D. MacDonald Award for Excellence in Florida Fiction include:
James Hall,
Elmore Leonard,
Paul Levine,
Charles Willeford.
Under the auspices of Green Flash Salvage, a successor to an earlier JDM group, the award has been continued:
The first winner of the MYSTERY:THE FLORIDA CONNECTION- John D. MacDonald Award for Excellence in Florida Mystery Fiction was
Randy Wayne White in April, 2002.
In June of 2006 the award was presented to
Stuart Kaminsky