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Afro-Centered Futurisms in Our Speculative Fiction
An Admirable Point
Bibliotherapy: The Healing Power of Reading
Black Women Writers at Work
Books of Mana: 180 Maori-Authored Books of Significance
Catching the Light (Why I Write)
Craft in the Real World
Deciphering Sun Tzu
Decolonizing Knowledge
Decolonizing Language and Other Revolutionary Ideas
Echoes
Every Day I Read
Every Word Matters: Writing to Engage the Public
Finding Eliza: Power and Colonial Storytelling
Healing Through Words
Homecoming
How to Read Now
In a Land Far From Home
In Search of the Color Purple
Indeterminate Inflorescence
Languages of Truth
Orientalism
Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America
Power and Resistance
Race and Entertainment
Real Toads, Imaginary Gardens
Rescuing Socrates
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
Speaking and Being
The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop
The Art of Revision: The Last Word
The Black Box: Writing the Race
The Black Writers' Toolbox: A Practical Guide to Writing Fiction
The Book of Alchemy
The Call of the Tribe
The Conscious Style Guide
The Healing Power of Korean Letter Writing
The House of Being
The Literary Lacan
The Question of Palestine
The Scent of Flowers at Night
The Selected Works of Edward Said: 1966–2006
The Trembling Hand: Reflections of a Black Woman in the Romantic Archive
The World in a Grain of Sand
This Thread of Gold
To Save and to Destroy: Writing as an Other
Toni at Random
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Amplify is an antiracist social enterprise bookshop dedicated to books by BIPOC authors. It was born out of a frustration with the structural racism in the publishing industry and a desire to tangibly make a change in a rigid industry.
We started as an online bookstore in 2020 and expanded into our Peel St shopfront in November 2024. There, you can browse our curation in person and attend bookish events.
After being online-only for four years we opened our physical shopfront in November 2025. The bricks-and-mortar shop allows us to showcase the collection in full for leisurely browsing, chats, and holds a third space offering in our reading room.
We host a wide range of bookish and community-oriented events at Amplify. They are cosy, affordable, alcohol-free, and a great, low-stakes way to meet new people.
We offer various community events including speed dating, book swaps, crafting workshops, book launches, and author salons. Our in-house book club is held once a month in our reading room.
Publishing has a diversity problem. There are less diverse books being published which limits the discoverability and reach of those authors.
We give BIPOC authors a space where they don't have to fight to be seen.