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is a Canadian literary award, presented through the provincial government's annual Arts and Letters Competition to an unpublished manuscript by a first-time novelist from Newfoundland and Labrador.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.^[1] The award comes with a cash prize, originally $1,500^[2] and raised to $2,500 in 2014.^[3]

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^[4]
• 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^[5]
• 2016 - Devin Lee, Waking Ambrose^[6]
• 2017 - Terry Doyle, Union^[7]
• 2018 - Willow Kean, Our Impossible Forever^[8]
• 2019 - Susan Flanagan, Supermarket Baby
• 2020 - Alex Saunders, Safe in a Dangerous Place: kamatsiagit ulugianattumi