ABOUT SARAH BULLEN
Sarah Bullen is an author, storyteller and much loved international writing mentor with a unique brand of humour and heart. She runs writing mentorships, mystical storytelling retreats and women's rites of passages around the world. Her books include Hey Baby! The Hip New Mom's Guide That's All About You and Write your Book in 100 Days! Stop Mucking About & Just Write. She is a cancer survivor and a former journalist and magazine editor.
Sarah's own story is inspirational. She was just 34 with a young family when her husband discovered he had a brain tumour. As he pursued a shamanic path to fight the cancer, they were both catapulted into a strange and magical world of ritual and ceremony. Alongside hospitals, surgery and treatments, fear and uncertainty came another wilder journey of spiritual searching. Then the impossible happened. As he entered his last weeks of life - Sarah ended up fighting for her own life, in a coma on life support. She was to remain in the coma for four weeks and travelled through near-death and into other realms and worlds. This journey is the story in her book Love and Above: A journey through shamanism, coma and joy.
Sarah has worked with authors and publishers for over 17 years. She is a frequent keynote speaker, guest on talk shows and literary festivals and a contributor to magazines internationally. As an agent she represents authors of non-fiction, commercial fiction and celebrity or breathtaking memoirs.
She was the former personal finance editor at the Mail & Guardian, radio news editor at Business Day radio and had a 10 year career as a magazine publisher and editor. She lectures in personal narrative fiction at MA level.
Publications Sarah has been featured in include:
Elle Decoration (UK, Greece, Germany, South Africa), Women’s Health, Men's Health, Marie Claire, House and Leisure
House and Garden, Business Day, Business Day Wanted lifestyle supplement, New Media Publishing (freelance lifestyle writer and reviewer for a few of their custom titles), The Guardian (UK), Mail & Guardian, The Times, The Good Weekend, Fair Lady, Femina, Your Baby, Horizons, CNBC, eNCA, Cape Talk, SABC.
She is a journalist, television and radio interviewer an MC who hosts book launches and conferences.
She also does traditional oral storytelling in women's circles and at retreats and events.
Sarah is a cancer survivor herself. Four years after her husband died she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She facilitates talks and writing workshops and writing work for trauma. She has written extensively about her own journey with cancer, death and resilience in magazines and on talk shows.
She currently is alive and thriving and lives in Cape Town, South Africa with her two grown teenagers and runs writing retreats in breathtaking locations around the globe.
Sarah's own story is inspirational. She was just 34 with a young family when her husband discovered he had a brain tumour. As he pursued a shamanic path to fight the cancer, they were both catapulted into a strange and magical world of ritual and ceremony. Alongside hospitals, surgery and treatments, fear and uncertainty came another wilder journey of spiritual searching. Then the impossible happened. As he entered his last weeks of life - Sarah ended up fighting for her own life, in a coma on life support. She was to remain in the coma for four weeks and travelled through near-death and into other realms and worlds. This journey is the story in her book Love and Above: A journey through shamanism, coma and joy.
Sarah has worked with authors and publishers for over 17 years. She is a frequent keynote speaker, guest on talk shows and literary festivals and a contributor to magazines internationally. As an agent she represents authors of non-fiction, commercial fiction and celebrity or breathtaking memoirs.
She was the former personal finance editor at the Mail & Guardian, radio news editor at Business Day radio and had a 10 year career as a magazine publisher and editor. She lectures in personal narrative fiction at MA level.
Publications Sarah has been featured in include:
Elle Decoration (UK, Greece, Germany, South Africa), Women’s Health, Men's Health, Marie Claire, House and Leisure
House and Garden, Business Day, Business Day Wanted lifestyle supplement, New Media Publishing (freelance lifestyle writer and reviewer for a few of their custom titles), The Guardian (UK), Mail & Guardian, The Times, The Good Weekend, Fair Lady, Femina, Your Baby, Horizons, CNBC, eNCA, Cape Talk, SABC.
She is a journalist, television and radio interviewer an MC who hosts book launches and conferences.
She also does traditional oral storytelling in women's circles and at retreats and events.
Sarah is a cancer survivor herself. Four years after her husband died she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She facilitates talks and writing workshops and writing work for trauma. She has written extensively about her own journey with cancer, death and resilience in magazines and on talk shows.
She currently is alive and thriving and lives in Cape Town, South Africa with her two grown teenagers and runs writing retreats in breathtaking locations around the globe.
Sarah's expertise and heartfelt care are a rare find. I highly recommend her services as a writing coach and literary agent and am very grateful to have found her.
Colleen-Joy Page Author The Apple Tree and The Wisdom Well Way
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Sarah's Published Books
Hey Baby! The Hip New Mom's Guide That's All About You. (2004).
Romance 101 -How Your Relationship can Survive your Children and Other Passion Killers (2007)
Write your Book in 100 Days! Stop Mucking about and Write it, with Kate Emmerson and Sarah Bullen (2020)
She started out as a financial journalist at Euroweek UK and moved up through the cadet ranks to become the personal finance editor of the Daily Mail and Guardian, launch editor of NetAsset, editor of Business Day online and news editor at Business Day Radio. She moved out of newspapers and radio, and into magazines working as an editor and features editor for a series of glossy lifestyle titles, then group editor of a larger publishing stable. She launched a publishing company Gas Publishing with co-publisher Gary Cotterell in 2003 and published a series of custom print and online titles for clients including Mini, BMW, kulula.com, The First Rand Banking Group and Standard Bank. She was a director in Traffik, a cutting-edge digital content agency and that produced television content.
Sarah's focus then turned exclusively to book editing and coaching. After her husband died of brain cancer in 2012 she moved to a Greece island to write and run writers retreats and moved back to Cape Town in 2017.
Hey Baby! The Hip New Mom's Guide That's All About You. (2004).
Romance 101 -How Your Relationship can Survive your Children and Other Passion Killers (2007)
Write your Book in 100 Days! Stop Mucking about and Write it, with Kate Emmerson and Sarah Bullen (2020)
She started out as a financial journalist at Euroweek UK and moved up through the cadet ranks to become the personal finance editor of the Daily Mail and Guardian, launch editor of NetAsset, editor of Business Day online and news editor at Business Day Radio. She moved out of newspapers and radio, and into magazines working as an editor and features editor for a series of glossy lifestyle titles, then group editor of a larger publishing stable. She launched a publishing company Gas Publishing with co-publisher Gary Cotterell in 2003 and published a series of custom print and online titles for clients including Mini, BMW, kulula.com, The First Rand Banking Group and Standard Bank. She was a director in Traffik, a cutting-edge digital content agency and that produced television content.
Sarah's focus then turned exclusively to book editing and coaching. After her husband died of brain cancer in 2012 she moved to a Greece island to write and run writers retreats and moved back to Cape Town in 2017.
