Percy Janes First Novel Award

The Percy Janes First Novel Award is a Canadian literary award, presented through the provincial government's annual Arts and Letters Competition to an unpublished manuscript by a first-time novelist from Newfoundland and Labrador. The award is named for the late Newfoundland writer Percy Janes. The award comes with a cash prize, originally $1,500 and raised to $2,500 in 2014.

Winners

 * 2000 – Tom Moore, Ghost World
 * 2001 – Gerard Collins, Finton Moon
 * 2002 – Oral Mews, I Have a Solution for the Woman with Slugs
 * 2003 – Joel Thomas Hynes, Down to the Dirt
 * 2004 – Sara Tilley, Skin Room
 * 2005 – Jeff Rose, Game Misconduct
 * 2006 – David B. Hickey, A Cappella
 * 2007 – Degan Davis, The Forgetting Room
 * 2008 – Craig Francis Power, Blood Relatives
 * 2009 – Patrick Warner, Precious
 * 2010 – Melanie Oates, Hanging from the Ceiling
 * 2011 – Lee Burton, Raw Flesh in the Rising
 * 2012 – Scott Bartlett, Taking Stock
 * 2013 – Mary Pike, Never-Ever-Land
 * 2014 – Susan Sinnott, Just Like Always
 * 2015 – Sharon Bala, The Boat People
 * 2016 - Devin Lee, Waking Ambrose
 * 2017 - Terry Doyle, Union
 * 2018 - Willow Kean, Our Impossible Forever
 * 2019 - Susan Flanagan, Supermarket Baby
 * 2020 - Alex Saunders, Safe in a Dangerous Place: kamatsiagit ulugianattumi