Discipline: Literature – fiction

Sarah Cornwell

Discipline: Literature – fiction
Region: Los Angeles, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2015

Sarah Cornwell is figuring out how to juggle her fiction writing life and her screenwriting life. Her debut novel, What I Had Before I Had You, was published in 2014. She is engaged on screenwriting projects for Warner Brothers, Paramount Pictures, Focus Features, and others. She was at MacDowell to explore an idea for her second novel.

Studios

Heyward

Sarah Cornwell worked in the Heyward studio.

The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…

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