Collection:
Essays
Small Bodies of Water
Novelist as a Vocation
Black and Female
Freedom, Only Freedom
Organize, Fight, Win
Partition Voices
The Colour of God
New Daughters of Africa
Growing Up In Australia
Far From my Hospital Bed
Statements from the Soul
Map Reading
What Women Want: On Desire, Power, Love and Growth
Resilience
Together
Translating Myself and Others
Namwayut: We Are All One
Black Voices on Britain
Lankan Filling Station
The End of History and the Last Man
Collected Essays (1986-2011)
Sister, Outsider
Things I Have Withheld
Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Blacklight
Misfits
Well-Read Black Girl
The Right to Sex
Feminism is for Everybody
Black Women Writers at Work
Dog Hearted
Sister Girl
Raven Smith's Men
The Call of the Tribe
Abolition Geography
Ordinary Notes
A History of my Brief Body
The Racial Politics of Australian Multiculturalism
Quietly Hostile
Twelve Words for Moss
On the Voice to Parliament
Honouring our Ancestors
A Flat Place
Nga Kupu Wero
Constructing a Nervous System
The One Thing We've Never Spoken About
The Sex Lives of African Women
Minor Feelings
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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.