Percy Janes First Novel Award

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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is a Canadian literary award, presented through the provincial government's annual Arts and Letters Competition to an unpublished manuscript by a first-time novelist from Newfoundland and Labrador.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]

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