No-Presh Write Club

Last Thursdays

6:30pm-8ish-pm
Mermaid Books

Join us for our monthly writing club.

Choose to respond to a prompt, or chip away at a manuscript you’re already working on.

Free, but space is limited.

To join in person or remotely via Google Meet link, email us at info@mermaidbooksct.com.

Fall Storytime

Every Friday,

10:30am-11:00am

For babies, toddlers + preschoolers ages 0-4

We love storytime! Join our wonderful children’s specialists Ms. Ellen and Ms. Laura, longtime educators and moms, every Friday for our free and low-key story hour designed for budding book lovers. No registration necessary, walk-ins welcome.

Thrills + Chills Book Club, September:
Three Bags Full,
by Leonie Swann

Thursday, September 9
6:30pm-8pm
Location: Mermaid Books

Our thrillers book club is open to new members!

From cozy mysteries and spiky suspense to cerebral psychological thrillers, this group tackles it all. Come yap with us in September, when we’ll be discussing Three Bags Full, by Leonie Swann. Guests will snack and sip potluck-style; contribute what you can/wish.

To rsvp, email our bookseller-facilitator
Charlotte at mermaidbookseller1@gmail.com.

DMBA 2026 Night Market

Thursday, September 17

5pm-9pm

Location: Milford Green

The Downtown Milford Night Market is back!

Located on the Milford Green, featuring loads of vendors, entertainment, and kids’ activities, the Downtown Milford Night Market is one of our favorite end-of-summer events. Come shop with us under the stars!

Craft Night:
Book Bedazzling
w/Creatively Clinical

Friday, September 18
6:30pm-8:30pm
Location: Mermaid Books

Our monthly bedazzling night is back!

Oh, how we missed Allie Joy of Creatively Clinical! Join her on September 18 for this this hands-on workshop, when she’ll teach guests how to bedazzle a book using tiny gems and rhinestones. No crafting experience needed, just bring your creativity! Please note that you must bring your own book to bedazzle for the event, or purchase one at the store.

A couple of reminders:

✨Please arrive no earlier than 6:30pm, to give us time to set up
✨Feel free to BYOB and snacks
✨ *Because this is a BYOB event, this event is 21+.

This event is limited to 15 spots. Grab your ticket before it sells out!

About Creatively Clinical:

Allie Joy is a licensed professional counselor and board-certified art therapist who works with clients and therapists to help them find their inner artists. “Every therapist (and person!) has creative potential,” Allie says. “Personal expression isn’t about natural ability; it’s about bringing curiosity, authenticity, and your own unique creativity into everything you do. The art is in the trying!” Allie shares tips, projects and more with her 58K followers on Instagram @creativelyclinical.

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Second-Chance Romance
Book Club

Launching in October

Third Thursdays
6:30pm-8pm
Location: Mermaid Books

Because one romance book club just wasn’t enough!

By popular demand, we’re announcing a second chapter of our explosively popular romance book club! Second-Chance Romance will begin meeting in October; we’ll announce the first book pick in September.

Interested? To launch this club, we’re looking for two facilitators and at least eight members.

Email info@mermaidbooksct.com if you’d like to jump in.

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Big Weird Book Club

Launching in October

Third Wednesdays
6:30pm-8pm
Location: Mermaid Books

Unhinged characters, out-of-the-ordinary conceits, the odd, the ominous, the truly bizarre:

This is what we’ll be reading in Big Weird, Mermaid Books’ newest book club. As with our other new book club, this will launch in October, and we’ll be picking the first book soon. To run it, we’re looking for two facilitators and at least eight members. Could one of them be you?

To join, email info@mermaidbooksct.com.

Reading for Change Nonfiction Book Club, August: Empire of AI, by Karen Hao

September meeting
Wednesday, September 30
6:30pm-8pm

Location: Mermaid Books

Join us for our monthly nonfiction book club.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re feeling it, too: We’ve entered into a period some observers refer to as “hypernormalization,” a term coined to describe a society where norms and systems are breaking down, yet life carries on, per usual. How do we persist, in a world like this? Where do we put our anxious energy? How do we find purpose?

We’ll tackle these and other big questions in this new club, inviting experts into our meetings to enhance our understanding of the themes and issues we unpack. Our hope? To learn; to find hope in the darkness, in each other; to reject inertia and apathy; and learn new ways to make a difference.

Membership is rolling, and we’ll announce our reads each month, before we meet.

As with all of our clubs, we’ll top out at 15 members, so if you’re interested, please drop us a line to claim your spot and let us know if you need a copy of the book. To support Mermaid Books, you may buy copies in store at our book club discount, download ebooks from Bookshop.org, or download audiobooks at Libro.fm.