Dr David Reiter is an award-winning text and digital artist, and Publisher at IP (Brisbane). His film, Nullarbor Song Cycle, was short-listed for the 2012 WA Premier’s Award. Hemingway in Spain and Selected Poems was short-listed for the 1998 SA Festival Awards and is now a film. The Cave After Saltwater Tide (Penguin) won the 1994 Queensland Premier’s Poetry Award and his short story collection, Triangles, was short-listed for the 2000 Steele Rudd Award. He authored the satiric novel Primary Instinct and the picture book Bringing Down the Wall (2013). David was artist-in-residence in 2012 at the Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada) where he completed the transmedia My Planets Reunion Memoir Project with the support of the Australia Council and the Cultural Fund of the Copyright Agency, which won 2013 Western Australian Premier’s Award for Digital Narrative. His medico-tanka multimedia work Time Lords Remixed won the 2016 Western Australian Premier's Award.
His most recent work is on the Woody & Sir Humphrey picture book series, which he has been adapted into a 12 episode TV series for young children (think Bluey!) and a soon to be published verse play, Tchaikovsky (Almost) in Love, which is seeking theatre production and then adaptation into a biopic a la Amadeus. Anyone interested in these projects should contact him for further information.
Westerna Australian Premier's Award
(2016)
Western Australian Premier's Award
(2012)
Adelaide Festival Award
(2006)
Queensland Premiers Award
(1997)
Harvard University
(1985-1985)
University of Denver
(1980-1982)
University of Alberta
(1970-1972)
University of Oregon
(1967-1970)