Before taking up PhD research under David Hering and Daniel O'Connor on portrayals of disability and employment in post-1900 literature, Saul worked in higher education as a disability supervisor and disability rights campaigner. He is the Accessibility Officer for ADDRESS, a user-led disability organisation on Merseyside, and he writes for Public Disability History. Saul has chaired launch events for fiction anthologies at Blackwells, and works with Penguin Random House to assist disabled novelists with their writing. In 2021, his story ‘Loggerhead’ won the award for best postgraduate fiction and was published by Liverpool University Press in The Great Read anthology, alongside George Orwell and Toni Morrison. In 2022 he was on The Great Read's judging panel. He has taught creative writing in a number of settings, including the University of Liverpool’s module Creativity: Socially-Engaged Writing Practice.
