Harley Rustad

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Harley Rustad is an award-winning and bestselling author, journalist, and magazine…

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Honors & Awards

  • Editor Grand Prix

    National Magazine Awards

    Gold winner for Editor Grand Prix at the 2024 National Magazine Awards

  • Religion News Association Excellence in Religion Reporting

    Religion News Association

    "Lost in the Valley of Death: a story of obsession and danger in the Himalayas"

    Winner of the Religion News Association Excellence in Religion Reporting for nonfiction books

  • Poland Mountain Book Award

    Poland Mountain Book Festival

    "Lost in the Valley of Death: a story of obsession and danger in the Himalayas"

    Winner of the Poland Mountain Literature Festival Award for Best Non-Fiction Book and winner of Overall Grand Prix

  • Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book

    Crime Writers of Canada

    "Lost in the Valley of Death: a story of obsession and danger in the Himalayas"

    Finalist for the Brass Knuckles Award for Best Nonfiction Crime Book

  • Banff Mountain Book Awards

    Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

    "Lost in the Valley of Death: a story of obsession and danger in the Himalayas"

    Finalist in the Adventure Travel category

  • Shaughessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

    Writer's Trust

    "Big Lonely Doug: the story of one of Canada's last great trees"

    Shortlisted for the Shaughessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing

  • Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize

    BC Book Prizes

    "Big Lonely Doug: the story of one of Canada's last great trees"

    Shortlisted for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize

  • Banff Mountain Book Awards

    Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity

    "Big Lonely Doug: the story of one of Canada's last great trees"

    Finalist in the Mountain Environment and Natural History category

  • National Magazine Award (silver)

    National Magazine Awards

    Big Lonely Doug
    How a single tree, and the logger who saved it, have changed the way we see British Columbia’s old-growth forests

  • National Magazine Award (honourable mention)

    National Magazine Awards

    Where the Streets Have No Names
    How a remote archipelago in Hudson Bay is using digital cartography to put itself on the map

  • National Newspaper Award (nomination)

    National Newspaper Awards

    Cashing In
    The failed promise of immigration in P.E.I.

    (Collectively reported by the investigative workshop at the University of King's College.)

Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • French

    Professional working proficiency

Organizations

  • Royal Geographical Society

    Fellow

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