Lattes & LIT

04/19/2022

Parents, please Please PLEASE do not let your youngsters be downtown in Hostile Springs after dark. I learned the hard way that it is just not safe (especially for women). A "bouncer" at a downtown nightspot groped me at our table and threatened us all (girls night out, four women at a high top) and he never faced any consequences. That was YEARS ago and things are apparently even worse now. Praying for this family!!!

The Hot Springs Police Department has issued an AMBER Alert for a missing 17-year-old girl. Trynytee Case was last seen leaving work at Pour Some Sugar on Me Bakery in downtown Hot Springs Monday at approximately 9:15 p. m. Case, along with another female coworker, were walking to their vehicles par...

12/05/2016

Author/journalist Suzi Parker enlivened a dark & stormy night by recounting her escapades

12/04/2016

The final Lattes & Lit of the year was spectacular, as folks turned out to witness the wit & wisdom of author/journalist Suzi Parker. Stay Fearless in 2017, and keep on reading & writing

11/18/2016

Save the Date: Saturday, December 3, 6 pm @ Kollective Coffee+Tea, 110 Central Avenue in Historic Downtown Hot Springs, Lattes & Lit welcomes author Suzi Parker

11/06/2016

Thank you Linda Pennington Black for sharing insights of your life and work at last night's Lattes & Lit! And Happy Birthday Weekend to baseball legend Bill McCrary!

10/17/2016

Save the Date: Saturday, November 5 @ 6 pm, Lattes & Lit @ Kollective Coffee+Tea welcomes author Linda Pennington Black, who will share a retrospective of her writing life. Join us!

Linda (Pennington) Black is a native Arkansan who grew up in the Arkadelphia community of Curtis. She is a public speaker and an award winning author and poet. Linda attended Curtis Industrial #64 through the sixth grade until the closing of the school. From there she entered Peake High School in Arkadelphia and graduated from John Marshall Harlan High School in Chicago, Illinois in 1967. With her move to Lansing, Michigan she became gainfully employed with the General Motors Corporation for over thirty years. During her stay in Michigan she chose Lansing Community College as her school for higher learning, where she attained an AA degree. While there she was an avid member of the poetry club. She later joined the University of Phoenix to further studies in psychology and criminal justice.

At the tender age of 10, she wrote her first song. It was promptly sent off to Nashville to be set to music and even though it was not published, Linda never lost sight of her love for writing.

Linda is a public speaker and has a published poem in the anthology, Sistahs with Ink Voices and one in the white house, The Dream/The Victory, written for President Obama on his first inauguration. She also is the author of The Adventures of Boots: The Giant Snowball (an award winner), A Porpoise for Cara, S.T.O.P. Bullying, My Daddy is a Star, recently published, A Legend Among Us: The Story of William "Youngblood" McCrary, Chilly W***y the Hoodie Wearing Bully and newly released The Adventures of Boots: The Christmas Surprise (2nd in series).

Linda resides in Hot Springs Village, Arkansas with husband Richard and is a member of the Hot Springs Village Writer's Club and the Arkansas Pioneer Branch of the NLAPW (National League of American Pen Women). She also plays a key role in the planning and organization of The Arkansas Writer's Conference held in June each year. She continues to write and still considers children to be her purest inspiration.

This Erma Bombeck quote inspires Linda to give all she has in crafting her books:
"When I stand before God at the end of my life,
I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left,
and could say, I used everything you gave me."

10/02/2016

Grace Norton read her award-winning short story "The Changeling" to an enthralled audience

09/28/2016

This Saturday, October 1st at 6 pm, Lattes & Lit @ Kollective Coffee+Tea welcomes award-winning student author Grace Norton. Join us at 110 Central Avenue for Hot Springs' longest-running monthly literary roundtable, free to the public, offering fascinating insights & discussion. Grace will read from her short story, "The Changeling," winner of Hendrix College's Short Fiction Prize for 2016.

09/15/2016

Save the Date: Saturday, October 1st!

Lattes & Lit welcomes award-winning student author

Lattes & Lit, Hot Springs’ monthly literary roundtable hosted by Kollective Coffee+Tea, 110 Central Avenue, welcomes artist/author Grace Norton at 6 pm Saturday, October 1st.

A senior at Hendrix College in Conway, Grace is the recipient of the 2016 Aonian Award for Short Fiction. She will read her short story The Changeling at the October 1st event. At 21 years old, Grace has already established a cohesive body of work. The youngest artist to contribute works to Little Rock’s Eggshibition, Grace also was a featured artist at Argenta’s former Starving Artist café, painting alongside her father, Little Rock-based artist Douglass Norton.

A 2013 graduate of Lakeside High School in Hot Springs, Grace’s artistic endeavors include founding the Spa City’s first electronic dance party venue for young people. She also staged variety shows at art galleries in Historic Downtown’s Arts District. A student film, Dear, which she wrote, directed and edited, was nominated for the Thea Foundation Prize.

After winning art scholarships from both Lakeside and Hendrix, Grace is completing her degree in English and Creative Writing while serving as Hendrix College’s Concert Director for the 2016-2017 school year. Her short stories are notable for their clarity, sensuality and traces of mysticism.

Lattes & Lit is a free, open to the public monthly literary event in the heart of downtown Hot Springs. For information visit on Facebook as Lattes & Lit or call 501.276.6870.

09/04/2016

Thanks to everyone who came tonight to Lattes & Lit! It was cool to see my favorite bee-keeper! How did I forget to take any pictures--i even had my camera, just forgot. It's a gorgeous weekend in the Spa Town, just picture w/your mind's eye a postcard perfect blue sky white puffy cloud bright green-bordered penny postcard that is actually priceless, despite the pile of dusty gray rubble and broken bricks in the corner. Tonight was majestic in every sense of the word. Happy holiday weekend!

08/25/2016

Save the Date: Saturday, September 3 at 6 pm, Lattes & Lit@Kollective Coffee+Tea, 110 Central Avenue, welcomes Denise White Parkinson, author of Daughter of the White River. With the discovery of the lost archives of Dayton Bowers, the photographer who captured images of Helen Spence and the River People, Denise has embarked on a book: a collection of stories inspired by these rare photographs. She will read excerpts from this work-in-progress, titled "The River Sisters," and autograph copies of Daughter of the White River.

08/08/2016

Thank you, Kat Robinson, for a fascinating journey through the culinary landscape of the Natural State!! Keep us posted on your upcoming projects