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is a Canadian literary award, presented through the provincial government's annual Arts and Letters Competition to an unpublished manuscript by a first-time novelist from Newfoundland and Labrador.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 â Tom Moore, Ghost World
- 2001 â Gerard Collins, Finton Moon
- 2002 â Oral Mews, I Have a Solution for the Woman with Slugs
- 2003 â Joel Thomas Hynes, Down to the Dirt
- 2004 â Sara Tilley, Skin Room
- 2005 â Jeff Rose, Game Misconduct
- 2006 â David B. Hickey, A Cappella
- 2007 â Degan Davis, The Forgetting Room
- 2008 â Craig Francis Power, Blood Relatives
- 2009 â Patrick Warner, Precious
- 2010 â Melanie Oates, Hanging from the Ceiling
- 2011 â Lee Burton, Raw Flesh in the Rising
- 2012 â Scott Bartlett, Taking Stock
- 2013 â Mary Pike, Never-Ever-Land
- 2014 â Susan Sinnott, Just Like Always
- 2015 â Sharon Bala, The Boat People
- 2016 â Devin Lee, Waking Ambrose
- 2017 â Terry Doyle, Union
- 2018 â Willow Kean, Our Impossible Forever
- 2019 â Susan Flanagan, Supermarket Baby
- 2020 â Alex Saunders, Safe in a Dangerous Place: kamatsiagit ulugianattumi
- 2021 â Josh Goudie, The Last Portrait
- 2022 â Dane Gill, Anson in Antarctica
- 2023 â Malcolm Kempt, Nightfall
- 2024 â Sabrina Pinksen, Those Who Stayed
- 2025 â Nina Pye, Labrador Patella
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