By Kenny Martin

The SMU English Department will hold its annual LitFest Fall reading, the Kimbilio reading, Oct. 15.

This year’s event features five writers, including fiction writers, memoirists and poets. English students have called this event the campus literary highlight of the semester.

The reading will welcome three Fellows of the Kimbilio writer’s program: Sanderia Faye, Rosalyn Story and Latoya S. Watkins, as well as featured readers R.D. Betts and Ravi Howard.

The Kimilio program is a writing community supported by Dedman College and the English Department that nurtures and promotes a community of writers from the African diaspora. The program holds a writing retreat each July at the SMU-in-Taos campus, in addition to supporting the Fellows in other ways throughout the year.

LitFest is a campus tradition that has featured writers as accomplished as Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Joyce Carol Oates, John Updike and Susan Sontag. It continues to sustain a rich literary culture on campus. Anyone on campus is encouraged to and welcome to attend.

The reading will be held in Dedman Life Sciences Room 131. There is a reception at 6 p.m. with the reading and book signing to follow at 6:30 p.m. Italian food and a dessert will be served.