Sustainable Development Goals
#17Booksfor17SDGs 2024 Campaign
By Ōtepoti He Puna Auaha | Dunedin UNESCO City Of Literature | Posted: Wednesday Dec 18, 2024
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. |
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Heartfelt thanks to our wonderful Ōtepoti writersfor making a difference ❤️ |
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📖Power To Win: The Living Wage Movement in Aotearoa New Zealand Lyndy McIntyre (Otago University Press, 2024) |
 End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture |
📖Seasons Alison Lambert (Otago Daily Times, 2024) |
 Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages |
📖At The Grand Glacier Hotel Laurence Fearnley (Penguin Books NZ, 2024) |
📖Blue Hour Jo McNeice (Otago University Press, 2024) |
📖Faces and Flowers - Poems to Patricia France Dinah Hawken (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2024) |
📖For when words fail us Claire Beynon (The Cuba Press, 2024) |
📖Frontline Surgeon Mark Derby (Massey University Press, 2024) |
📖Heart Stood Still Miriam Sharland (Otago University Press, 2024) |
📖In the shape of his hand lay a river Iona Winter (Elixir & Star Press, 2024) |
📖Little Dinosaurs, Big Feelings (10 Mindful Stories) Swapna Haddow, Dr Diplo (Magic Cat Publishing, 2024) |
📖Meantime Majella Cullinane (Otago University Press, 2024) |
📖Old Black Cloud - A Cultural History of Mental Depression in Aotearoa New Zealand Jacqueline Leckie (Massey University Press, 2024) |
📖One In Three Mira Harrison (The Book Guild, 2024) |
📖The Sound of My Heart Ella West (Rutherford Road Press, 2023) |
📖The Tortoise Diet Method Keren Mackay (The Professional Countrywoman, 2023) |
📖The Twisted Chain Jason Gurney (Otago University Press, 2024) |
📖Pretty Ugly Kirsty Gunn (Otago University Press, 2024) |
📖My Sore Throat Dr Heather Brooks and Lisa McComish (Manu Scripts NZ, 2024) |
 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) |
📖But Then ... The Almost True Story of an Overdue Book Swapna Haddow (Scholastic New Zealand, 2024) |
📖Dave Pigeon (Zombies!) Swapna Haddow (Faber Books, 2024) |
📖Dinner With Grandpa Gillian Torckler (David Ling Publishing, 2024) |
📖Divagations, Doodlings and Downright Lies Lyell Cresswell (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2024) |
📖Hopurangi—Songcatcher: Poems from the Maramataka Robert Sullivan (Auckland University Press, 2024) |
📖Still Is Vincent O'Sullivan (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2024) |
📖The Raven's Eye Runaways Claire Mabey (Allen & Unwin NZ, 2024) |
📖Wizardry to Weta Verse Elena de Roo - author (The Cuba Press, 2024) |
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📖An Idle Woman Wendy Parkins (Legend Press, 2024) |
📖Ash Louise Wallace (Te Herenga Waka University Press, 2024) |
📖Love in Time of Transition Anne Mannion (Alien Buddha Press, 2024) |
📖Nailed Boots and Crinoline Gowns: Women on the rural frontier in nineteenth century New Zealand Robert Peden (Fraser Books, 2024) |
📖Nell Penelope Todd (Cloud Ink, 2024) |
📖Otherhood: Essays on being childless, childfree, and child adjacent Edited by Kathryn van Beek, Lil O'Brien and Alie Benge (Massey University Press, 2024) |
📖/slanted Alison Glenny (Compound Press, 2024) |
📖The Defiance of Frances Dickinson Wendy Parkins (Affirm Press, 2024) |
📖The Pets We Have Killed Barbara Else (Quentin Wilson Publishing, 2024) |
📖Turbulent Threads Karen McMillan (Quentin Wilson Publishing, 2024) |
 Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all |
📖Flows Like Water Pam McKinlay (Pamphlaterre Publications, 2024) |
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📖New Stories Owen Marshall (Penguin Books NZ, 2024) |
📖Praha v me krvi (Prague in my blood) Jindra Tichá (Echo24.cz, 2023) |
📖Remembering and Becoming: Oral History in Aotearoa New Zealand Edited by Anna Green and Megan Hutching (Otago University Press, 2024) |
📖Flying Solo Rere Takitahi - Anthology JCL Purchase & AJ Woolf (Olearia Press, 2024) |
 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) |
📖Echoes from Hawaiki: The origins and development of Māori and Moriori musical instruments Jennifer Cattermole (Otago University Press, 2024) |
📖Endings: Poems 1984-2023 Bruce Bisset selected by David Eggleton (Earl of Seacliff Art Workshop, 2024) |
📖The Antipodean Express: A journey by train from New Zealand to Spain Gregory Hill (Exisle Publishing, 2024) |
📖Traditional Lifeways of Southern Māori James Herries Beattie, Edited by Atholl Anderson (Otago University Press, 2024) |
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📖Bob Crowder - A New Zealand Organics Pioneer Matt Morris (Otago University Press, 2024) |
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📖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) |
📖A Change in the Weather Bruce Mahalski and Abe Hunter (Otago Daily Times, 2024) |
📖Koe: An Aotearoa ecopoetry anthology Janet Newman & Robert Sullivan (Otago University Press, 2024) |
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📖Bad Panda: Mites, Camera, Action! Swapna Haddow (Faber Books, 2024) |
📖Five Wee Pūteketeke Nicola Toki and Jo Pearson (Allen & Unwin NZ, 2024) |
📖Ring Ting Tūī Elena de Roo and Paul Beavis (Penguin Random House, 2024) |
📖Sewing Moonlight Kyle Mewburn (Bateman Books, 2024) |
📖The Butterfly Fluttered By Kate Preece and Pippa Ensor (Bateman Books, 2024) |
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📖Cultures of Sustainable Peace Edited by: Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes, Alison Phipps, Tawona Sitholé (Multilingual Matters, 2024) |
📖Forms of Freedom: Marxist Essays in New Zealand and Australian Literature Dougal McNeill (Otago University Press, 2024) |
📖Katūīvei: Contemporary Pasifika Poetry from Aotearoa New Zealand Edited by David Eggleton, Vaughan Rapatahana and Mere Taito (Massey University Press, 2024) |
📖Keep Telling of Gaza Khawla Badwan and Alison Phipps (Sídhe Press, 2024) |
📖Liar, Liar, Lick, Spit Emma Neale (Otago University Press, 2024) |
📖Marilynn Webb: Folded in the Hills Lauren Gutsell, Lucy Hammonds and Bridget Reweti (Dunedin Public Art Gallery, 2023) |
📖Polynation: A collection of poetry Fa‘afetai Ta‘asē (Manu Scripts NZ, 2024) |
📖Prey - The Chilling, Twisty New Sam Shephard Mystery Vanda Symon (Orenda Books, 2024) |
📖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) |
📖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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📖Bold Types: Indie Bookshops of Aotearoa New Zealand Jane Ussher, Jemma Moreira, Deborah Coddington (Ugly Hill Press, 2024) |
📖HOOT! words from the Ōtepoti Writers Lab community 2019–2024 Edited by Eliana Gray and liz breslin (Rivulet Press, 2024) |
📖Landfall 247: Autumn 2024 Edited by Lynley Edmeades (Otago University Press, 2024) |
📖Landfall 248: Spring 2024, Edited by Lynley Edmeades (Otago University Press, 2024) |
📖paint me: The 37th New Zealand Poetry Society anthology Edited by Margaret Moores (New Zealand Poetry Society, 2024) |
📖Perch: Ōtepoti Dunedin poets celebrate 10 years of our UNESCO City of Literature Edited by Michelle Elvy (At the Bay | I te Kokoru, 2024) |