The Author

Hafsah Faizal Official Headshot
“…the YA tastemaker who’s about to take the industry by storm.” – Entertainment Weekly

Hafsah Faizal is the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of WE HUNT THE FLAME, WE FREE THE STARS and A TEMPEST OF TEA, and the founder of IceyDesigns, where she creates websites for authors and beauteous goodies for everyone else. A Forbes 30 under 30 honoree, when she’s not writing, she can be found designing, deciding between Assassin’s Creed and Skyrim, or traversing the world. Born in Florida and raised in California, she now resides in Texas with a library of books waiting to be devoured.

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Meet Hafsah

All dates subject to change. Please check back for updates and more events! Due to COVID-19, all in-person events have been cancelled for the foreseeable future.

S.K. Ali and Blue Willow Bookshop

Writing Strong Women
June 3rd

TBA

June 10th

TBA

June 12th

Past Events

2021 Events

Jan 19: Meet & Greet with Interabang Books
Jan 22: Launch Party with Holly Black // Main Street Books
Jan 25: Reddit AMA with r/books
Jan 31: DVCon: War of the Worlds Panel
Feb 2: Reddit AMA with r/fantasy
Mar 7: Tucson Festival of Books
Mar 13: AMA with TABC
Mar 15: St. Louis Book Festival
Mar 23: Scottish Book Trust
Mar 31: World-building class with ASU’s Piper Center
Apr 10: Houston’s TeenBookCon
Apr 23: Truth or Dare with FierceReads
Apr 24: YALLWEST
May 4: Launch Party for TOWMTF by Joan He
May 9: Imaginarium Festival
May 16: Carturesti FestivalYA in Romania

2020 Events

Feb 26: PLA 2020 // Nashville, TN
Feb 26: SLJ’s Evening of Dialog // Nashville, TN
Feb 28: Madison St Books // Chicago, IL
Feb 28-29: C2E2 // Chicago, IL
March 6: Ed Day at NTTBF // Irving, TX
March 7: NTTBF // Irving, TX
April 25: YALLWEST
May 31: BookCon
July 26: ComicCon@Home
Sept 18: Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing // Tempe, AZ
Sept 19: Instagram Live with ACOBAF
Sept 23: LitTalk with DFW Writer’s Con at Interabang // Dallas, TX
Sept 29: @Yesimhotinthis IG Takeover
Oct 3: Live Chat with Storia Books // Romania
Oct 15: SLJ’s Virtual Day of Dialog
Nov 1: NaNoWriMo Kick-off Party
Nov 5: LibraryCon Live!

2019 Events

April 13: LA Times Festival
April 15: TX Library Association
May 17: Launch Party at the Irving Library
May 21: Interabang Books with Rachel Caine
June 10: Fierce Reads // Books and Books, Coral Gables
June 11: Fierce Reads // East City Books, Washington DC
June 12: Fierce Reads // Main Street Books, St. Louis
June 13: Fierce Reads // Tattered Cover, Denver
June 14: Fierce Reads // Hicklebee’s, San Jose
June 15: Fierce Reads // Rediscovered Books, Boise
June 23: ALA Annual, Washington DC
June 26: B&N Neshaminy with Eric Smith and Farah Rishi
June 27-28: Children’s Institute
July 11: B&N Book Club // Frisco, TX
July 20-21: San Diego Comic Con
July 30: A Universe of Stories // Irving, TX
August 9-11: Leaky Con // Dallas, TX
September 22: Brooklyn Book Fest, NYC
October 25: USBBY Keynote // Austin, TX
October 26: Texas Book Fest // Austin, TX
November 2: YALSA Symposium // Memphis, TN
November 16-17: GeekGirl Con // Seattle, WA

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