Shining a light on SDGs and our Ōtepoti authors

As we do annually, several UNESCO Cities of Literature will raise awareness about the United Nations’ 2030 Sustainable Development Goals with the social media campaign, “17 Books for the 17 SDGs.”   Each day, between Dec. 2 and 18, some UNESCO Cities of Literature will share book suggestions from their cities, using the hashtags #17Booksfor17SDGs and #17livrespour17ODD. One of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will be highlighted each day, and relevant books tied to each participating city will be featured. These might be non-fiction titles that specifically address that day’s SDG or works of fiction that illuminate the theme.   Among the 53 UNESCO Cities of Literature that will participate this year are Dunedin (New Zealand), Exeter (England), Iowa City (United States), Manchester (England), Melbourne (Australia), and Québec City (Canada). Other Cities of Literature will share the selections to broaden the reach of the lists across the globe.   The project, initiated by Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature, seeks to draw attention to the SDGs and raise awareness through books and story. It also offers the chance to highlight the work of writers with ties to Cities of Literature.
Heartfelt thanks to our wonderful Ōtepoti writers for making a difference ❤️

End poverty in all its forms everywhere

📖Power To Win: The Living Wage Movement in Aotearoa New Zealand

Lyndy McIntyre (Otago University Press, 2024)

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End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture

📖Seasons

Alison Lambert (Otago Daily Times, 2024)

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Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

📖At The Grand Glacier Hotel

Laurence Fearnley (Penguin Books NZ, 2024)

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📖Blue Hour

Jo McNeice (Otago University Press, 2024)

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📖Faces and Flowers - Poems to Patricia France

Dinah Hawken (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2024)

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📖For when words fail us

Claire Beynon (The Cuba Press, 2024)

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📖Frontline Surgeon

Mark Derby (Massey University Press, 2024)

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📖Heart Stood Still

Miriam Sharland (Otago University Press, 2024)

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📖In the shape of his hand lay a river

Iona Winter (Elixir & Star Press, 2024)

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📖Little Dinosaurs, Big Feelings (10 Mindful Stories)

Swapna Haddow, Dr Diplo (Magic Cat Publishing, 2024)

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📖Meantime

Majella Cullinane (Otago University Press, 2024)

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📖My Sore Throat

Dr Heather Brooks and Lisa McComish (Manu Scripts NZ, 2024)

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📖Old Black Cloud - A Cultural History of Mental Depression in Aotearoa New Zealand

Jacqueline Leckie (Massey University Press, 2024)

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📖One In Three

Mira Harrison (The Book Guild, 2024)

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📖Pretty Ugly

Kirsty Gunn (Otago University Press, 2024)

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📖The Sound of My Heart

Ella West (Rutherford Road Press, 2023)

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📖The Tortoise Diet Method

Keren Mackay (The Professional Countrywoman, 2023)

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📖The Twisted Chain

Jason Gurney (Otago University Press, 2024)

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Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

📖A Lot of Silly: A Book of Rhymes and Nonsense

Joy Cowley (Gecko Press, 2024)

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📖But Then ... The Almost True Story of an Overdue Book

Swapna Haddow (Scholastic New Zealand, 2024)

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📖Dave Pigeon (Zombies!)

Swapna Haddow (Faber Books, 2024)

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📖Dinner With Grandpa

Gillian Torckler (David Ling Publishing, 2024)

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📖Divagations, Doodlings and Downright Lies

Lyell Cresswell (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2024)

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📖Hopurangi—Songcatcher: Poems from the Maramataka

Robert Sullivan (Auckland University Press, 2024)

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📖Still Is

Vincent O'Sullivan (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2024)

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📖The Raven's Eye Runaways

Claire Mabey (Allen & Unwin NZ, 2024)

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📖Wizardry to Weta Verse

Elena de Roo - author (The Cuba Press, 2024)

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Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

📖An Idle Woman

Wendy Parkins (Legend Press, 2024)

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📖Ash

Louise Wallace (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2024)

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📖Love in Time of Transition

Anne Mannion (Alien Buddha Press, 2024)

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📖Nailed Boots and Crinoline Gowns: Women on the rural frontier in nineteenth century New Zealand

Robert Peden (Fraser Books, 2024)

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📖Nell

Penelope Todd (Cloud Ink, 2024)

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📖Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree, and child adjacent

Edited by Kathryn van Beek, Lil O'Brien and Alie Benge (Massey University Press, 2024)

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📖/slanted

Alison Glenny (Compound Press, 2024)

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📖The Defiance of Frances Dickinson

Wendy Parkins (Affirm Press, 2024)

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📖The Pets We Have Killed

Barbara Else (Quentin Wilson Publishing, 2024)

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📖Turbulent Threads

Karen McMillan (Quentin Wilson Publishing, 2024)

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Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all

📖Flows Like Water

Pam McKinlay (Pamphlaterre Publications, 2024)

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Reduce inequality within and among countries

📖New Stories

Owen Marshall (Penguin Books NZ, 2024)

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📖Praha v me krvi (Prague in my blood)

Jindra Tichá (Echo24.cz, 2023)

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📖Remembering and Becoming: Oral History in Aotearoa New Zealand

Edited by Anna Green and Megan Hutching (Otago University Press, 2024)

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📖Flying Solo Rere Takitahi - Anthology

JCL Purchase & AJ Woolf (Olearia Press, 2024)

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Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable

📖A Different Light: First Photographs of Aotearoa

Catherine Hammond and Shaun Higgins (Auckland University Press, 2024)

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📖Echoes from Hawaiki: The origins and development of Māori and Moriori musical instruments

Jennifer Cattermole (Otago University Press, 2024)

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📖Endings: Poems 1984-2023

Bruce Bisset selected by David Eggleton (Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, 2024)

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📖The Antipodean Express: A journey by train from New Zealand to Spain

Gregory Hill (Exisle Publishing, 2024)

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📖Traditional Lifeways of Southern Māori

James Herries Beattie, Edited by Atholl Anderson (Otago University Press, 2024)

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Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

📖Bob Crowder - A New Zealand Organics Pioneer

Matt Morris (Otago University Press, 2024)

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Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

📖För att ta sig ur en rivström måste man röra sig i sidled (To get out of a rip current, you have to move sideways)

Mikaela Nyman (Ellips förlag, 2023)

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📖A Change in the Weather

Bruce Mahalski and Abe Hunter (Otago Daily Times, 2024)

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📖Koe: An Aotearoa ecopoetry anthology

Janet Newman & Robert Sullivan (Otago University Press, 2024)

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Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

📖Bad Panda: Mites, Camera, Action!

Swapna Haddow (Faber Books, 2024)

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📖Five Wee Pūteketeke

Nicola Toki and Jo Pearson (Allen & Unwin NZ, 2024)

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📖Ring Ting Tūī

Elena de Roo and Paul Beavis (Penguin Random House, 2024)

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📖Sewing Moonlight

Kyle Mewburn (Bateman Books, 2024)

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📖The Butterfly Fluttered By

Kate Preece and Pippa Ensor (Bateman Books, 2024)

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Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

📖Cultures of Sustainable Peace

Edited by: Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes, Alison Phipps, Tawona Sitholé (Multilingual Matters, 2024)

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📖Forms of Freedom: Marxist Essays in New Zealand and Australian Literature

Dougal McNeill (Otago University Press, 2024)

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📖Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand

Edited by David Eggleton, Vaughan Rapatahana and Mere Taito (Massey University Press, 2024)

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📖Keep Telling of Gaza

Khawla Badwan and Alison Phipps (Sídhe Press, 2024)

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📖Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit

Emma Neale (Otago University Press, 2024)

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📖Marilynn Webb: Folded in the Hills

Lauren Gutsell, Lucy Hammonds and Bridget Reweti (Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2023)

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📖Polynation: A collection of poetry

Fa‘afetai Ta‘asē (Manu Scripts NZ, 2024)

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📖Prey - The Chilling, Twisty New Sam Shephard Mystery

Vanda Symon (Orenda Books, 2024)

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📖Raupanga: Ngā Pito Kōrero o te Pakanga Tuarua nō te Hau Kāinga,

Edited by Angela Wanhalla, edited and translated by Lachy Paterson (Auckland University Press, 2024)

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📖Te Hau Kāinga: The Māori Home Front during the Second World War

Angela Wanhalla, Sarah Christie, Lachy Paterson, Ross Webb and Erica Newman (Auckland University Press, 2024)

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Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

📖Bold Types: Indie Bookshops of Aotearoa New Zealand

Jane Ussher, Jemma Moreira, Deborah Coddington (Ugly Hill Press, 2024)

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📖HOOT! words from the Ōtepoti Writers Lab community 2019–2024

Edited by Eliana Gray and liz breslin (Rivulet Press, 2024)

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📖Landfall 247: Autumn 2024

Edited by Lynley Edmeades (Otago University Press, 2024)

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📖Landfall 248: Spring 2024, Edited by Lynley Edmeades (Otago University Press, 2024)

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📖paint me: The 37th New Zealand Poetry Society anthology

Edited by Margaret Moores (New Zealand Poetry Society, 2024)

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📖Perch: Ōtepoti Dunedin poets celebrate 10 years of our UNESCO City of Literature

Edited by Michelle Elvy (At the Bay | I te Kokoru, 2024)

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