Donaleen Saul
BIOGRAPHY
Donaleen Saul began her professional life as a Junior High Social Studies and Language Arts teacher. She then turned her love for learning into a writing career, penning award winning, internationally distributed children's educational TV programs at Access Network in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
In the 30 years that she has worked as a freelance writer, Donaleen has written documentaries, dramas, animation scripts, and print collateral for a variety of government and corporate clients. She was Story Editor for the fifth season of the CBC/Disney co-production, "Danger Bay."
A Gemini-nominated screenwriter, Donaleen is a script analyst for Telefilm Canada and Corus Entertainment, and has served as story editor for a number of independent producers throughout Canada and the U.S. She is currently working on "4th and Vine," a feature-length screenplay for which she received financing from the Harold Greenburg Fund and Telefilm Canada.
Donaleen specializes in educational writing and has penned curricula, promotional material, and articles for school districts in the Vancouver area as well as GT Publishing and the Canadian Education Association. She also brings her unique gifts for synthesizing many voices and viewpoints in her scribing work for Simon Fraser University’s Dialogue Programs.
Donaleen is a writing instructor who has taught at the Vancouver Film School and Langara College Continuing Studies Department, and has developed classes and workshops aimed at a range of audiences. Gather together a group of six or more friends or colleagues and she will facilitate a workshop – either one that she has currently developed (See Classes & Workshops), or one custom-designed for your group.
A graduate of the Center for Journal Therapy, Donaleen has created several journal-writing classes including "Scribing the Spiritual Journey," “In Your Own Write,” “Get it! – In Writing” and “Write on the Wild Side.”
She has just completed "Did You Know I Would Miss You? - A Healing Journey", a memoir and journal guidebook about healing loss by suicide. This past June, Donaleen made a presentation about her book at an international conference, "The Power of Writing", in Denver, Colorado.
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