She received a New Writers Fellowship from the Literature Fund of the Australia Council for the Arts. Her resultant play "Escape From a Better Place" was performed by four theatre companies, later adapted for ABC Radio Drama and read at the International Women's Playwrights Conference in Athens in 2000. During the 1990s Cornall wrote the screenplay "Talk", an Australian feature film directed by Susan Lambert. "Talk" showed in New York as part of a US tour and was reviewed in the "Village Voice". Cornall went on to write two musical plays for the Women on a Shoestring theatre company about Australian farming women and the unknown stars of the Australian silent film industry. In 2000, Cornall worked as writer on a unique project with Australian Tibetan musician Tenzing Tsewang, dramatising the story of his journey out of Tibet. Directed by Brian Joyce, "Hanging Onto the Tail of a Goat" was the first solo theatre production by a Tibetan performer in Australia. It showed in Melbourne, Wollongong, Penrith and Sydney's Opera House Studio. At the same time she began teaching writing workshops and retreats in communities, writers centres and colleges. In 2004 Jan ran her first writers retreat in Ubud, Bali in conjunction with the inaugural Ubud Writers and Readers Festival. Her time spent in Indonesia began collaborative relationships which she continued to develop over the following years with an Asia Link residency in Jakarta in 2006. During this time Cornall wrote "Take Me To Paradise", a novel, and composed and recorded "Singing Srengenge" in collaboration with noted Indonesian poet Sitok Srengenge and jazz pianist Imel Rosalin. At festivals in Indonesia, Cornall returned to performance after an absence of 20 years, performing her spoken and sung word at literary festivals and performance art at Perfurbance No. 2, #3, No. 4, street and village festivals in Jogjakarta. As an arts and travel journalist, Cornall's articles and have been published in "Jakarta Post", "RealTime Arts", "Arts Hub", "Urthona" magazine and "The Daily Telegraph". In January 2008 Jan took part in Gang Festival in Sydney, an artist-run exchange between Australian and Indonesian artists and wrote, produced and performed in a stage version of "Take Me To Paradise", with Indonesian performers: artist Jumaadi, poet Sitok Srengenge, musicians Deva Permana and Wendy Anggerani for OzASia Festival in Adelaide.