David P. Reiter David P. Reiter i(A21657 works by) (a.k.a. David Philip Reiter; David Reiter)
Born: Established: 1947
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United States of America (USA),
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Americas,
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Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1986
Heritage: Canadian
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BiographyHistory

David Reiter was born of East European Jewish heritage. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree (Honors College) from the University of Oregon (1970), a Master of Arts degree in American Literature from the University of Alberta (1971) and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Creative Writing at the University of Denver (1982). He has worked at the University of Canberra and Queensland University of Technology and for ten years as a publisher and publishing consultant. He has served on the Board of Senior Secondary School Studies in Queensland and on the Criminal Justice Commission.

Since 1994, Dr Reiter has received several grants for travel to North America and Europe from the Australia Council and Arts Queensland. In 1998, his fourth book, Hemingway in Spain and Selected Poems, was shortlisted for the 1998 John Bray Award (South Australia Literary Awards). His book of short stories, Triangles, was shortlisted for the 2000 Steele Rudd Award. In 1999 his play Paul and Vincent was broadcast on ABC Radio National. Many public readings of his work include the larger Queensland festivals, the American Association of Australian Literary Studies Conference at Arcata, California in 1996, the Millennium Conference at the University of Barcelona in 2000, Expo Langue in Paris and elsewhere in France, Spain, Canada and America.

Dr Reiter became the founding editor of Redoubt (University of Canberra) and in 1996 he founded IP ( Interactive Publications Pty Ltd), a publishing consultancy and a print and digital publisher (Brisbane). He has produced multimedia compositions also, completing The Gallery, an interactive poetic work in 2000 and a multimedia murder mystery, Sharpened Knife, in 2002. The web version of the latter work has been archived by the Pandora Project (National Library). He has been a member of the New South Wales Writers' Centre and the Australian Script Writers Association.

His most recent work includes the novel Primary Instinct (2008), a satire about the primary school system; Real Guns (2007) a children's picture book, the Project Earth-mend Series of junior novels, including The Greenhouse Effect (2004) and Global Cooling (2008). A feature film Hemingway in Spain, based on his poetry book of the same title (2007); Mum: speaking Latin with a singlet tan, a documentary film based on the work of Sydney artist Dale Kentwell.

He was a winner of the Queensland Premier's Poetry Award and has been Highly Commended in the South Australian Literary Awards, Highly Commended for the Steele Rudd Short Fiction Award, and has held writer-in-residencies at Booranga, Bundanon, the Michael King Centre (NZ) and will be Established Writer-in-Residence at that KSP Centre in Perth in 2010.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2012 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships Self-organised residency - Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada 12 September - 24 October 2012
1994 Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships Australia Council Literature Board Grants Poetry
1990 winner Imago Short Story Competition

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Timelord Dreaming : Tweetems from Ward 8b Carindale : Interactive Press , 2015 8360247 2015 selected work poetry

'You wake in the middle of the night with a terrible pain radiating from your lower side up to your chest. An ambulance is called, and you’re rationed ever increasing doses of morphine on your way to the hospital. In the EW, a heart attack is ruled out but the mystery intensifies. Until a CT scan reveals the truth...

“You”, in this case, was the author, who, with the kindness of a Dr Who understudy and other medical staff at the Mater Hospital, Brisbane, survived a urgent operation and had many medicated days to reflect on an often surreal experience.

'Timelord Dreaming uses “tweetems”, microtexts with Internet call-outs, to recreate one man’s journey through the parallel universes of patient and personal identity. If you’ve ever been hospitalised, you'll find much that is familiar – and not always comfortable – here. ' (Publication summary)

2016 winner Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Digital Narrative
y separately published work icon Triangles Carindale : Interactive Press , 1999 Z309236 1999 selected work short story

'A separated man finds a book of poems written by an old flame that tempts him back to a love that seemed too good to be true at the time...

'An opera singer returns from Europe to find his music teacher’s wife who taught him the meaning of true passion...

'A teenage girl competing in an Eisteddfod at Port Arthur finds that the brutal historic site and her hostess have more than a few secrets — and ghosts — in common...

'Migrating north to Queensland, a man finds his lover immersed in more than a change of scene...

'All hell breaks loose on a cul-de-sac when two otherwise married people admit to having it off — right under the nose of Neighbourhood Watch...' (Publication summary)

2000 shortlisted Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award This award was known as the Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award from 1988-2007.
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