Members of the University of Adelaide Creative Writing Advisory Board are:

Dr Anne Bartlett

Anne Bartlett is the author of Knitting (published by Penguin in Australia and the UK and by Houghton Mifflin in the US). She is a Visiting Research Fellow, Creative Writing Program, University of Adelaide.

Michael Bollen

Michael Bollen is Publisher and Editor at Wakefield Press, an independent book publishing and distribution company based in Adelaide, South Australia. He writes a regular column for the Adelaide Review.

Associate Professor Donna Lee Brien

Donna Lee Brien is Head of School, School of Arts and Creative Enterprise Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education, at Central Queensland University.

Professor Catherine Cole

Catherine Cole is a novelist, non-fiction writer and Professor of Creative Writing at RMIT University in Melbourne.

Associate Professor Nigel Krauth

Nigel Krauth is a Queensland writer and Associate Professor, School of Arts, at Griffith University.

Greg Mackie, OAM

Greg Mackie is Executive Director of Arts SA. In 2002 Greg was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for his contribution to the arts.

Lyn Tranter

Lyn Tranter is the proprietor of Australian Literary Management and was the inaugural president of the Australian Literary Agents' Association.

University of Adelaide reprentatives:

Professor Brian Castro

Brian Castro is Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide. He is the author of eight novels, and his forthcoming novel is The Bath Fugues (2009, Giramondo Publishing).

Dr Mandy Treagus

Dr Mandy Treagus is Head of the Discipline of English. Her research interests include cultural history of the display of Pacific peoples in colonial exhibitions; literary representations of the Pacific; Literature and culture 1880-1900; gender, sexuality and postcolonialism. Dr Treagus is representing the Head of the School of Humanities, Professor Gerard O'Brien.