Inspire The Artist Within
Memories of Past Festivals
Welcome to the Website of Kanturk Arts Festival Kanturk Arts Festival aims to celebrate and promote the arts in the region and to provide a platform and focal point for the arts locally.
About Kanturk Kanturk is a small and friendly town with a unique personality. Situated in north-west Co. Cork, it is the capital of the ancient barony of Duhallow and has a population of around 2000.
On Monday, March 19th 2018, as part of Kanturk Arts Festival, novelist Denyse Woods will deliver a workshop on Short Fiction from 2-5pm. Denyse, who has also written as Denyse Devlin, is a Cork-based novelist and the author of six novels. Her novels include the critically-acclaimed Overnight to Innsbruck and bestseller The Catalpa Tree. She […]
We are now open for entries for the Kanturk Arts Festival 2018 Flash Fiction Competition. This year we have three categories Adults, Age 13 & Under and Age 16 & Under. For more information on how to enter click on the relevant link below. Best of Luck. Age 13 & Under Competition Age 16 […]
Kanturk Arts Festival 2017 has come to a close for another year, and what a fantastic year it was! We would like to thank all our Artists, Performers, Sponsors, and Friends for helping to make this year such a success. We would also like to extend a very special thank you to our […]
Flash Fiction Winning Entries 2017 Mary Bradford ( judge) Kallum Young (runner up in the junior section) Mary Angland (Kanturk Arts Festival committee ) Sinead Slattery ( runner up) and Breda Sheehan (Kanturk Bookshop) Some more images from the event where all the winning entries were read. Kanturk Arts Festival once again wish to congratulate the winners. We […]