‘The Australian publishing industry has so much more to do in terms of seeing the value of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and people of colour) stories outside of our trauma or our role in educating white people on how they can be better allies. We have valuable stories to tell in both fiction and non-fiction,’ says Jing Xuan Teo, one half of the duo at Amplify, a bookstore that was founded in 2020 during the height of the pandemic, and exclusively stocks works from writers of colour.
Teo and her colleague, Marina Sano Litchfield, have just celebrated Amplify’s second birthday. From its humble beginnings, this start-up has grown to accommodate and stock thousands of titles across fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
