SCBWI PA West Presents: Canva Basics for Authors and Illustrators (With Susan Johnston Taylor)
Aug 18, 2025
Online event
Canva is a powerful tool that anyone can use to create book trailers, Instagram reels, slide presentations, social media headers, and other graphics. With the free desktop version of Canva, this webinar will cover the basics of setting up a project, adding images, text, and animation, changing colors, fonts, and other effects, downloading or sharing your project, and more. Monday, Aug 18 at 7 PM EST / Zoom 45 Minute Presentation / 15 Minute Q&A $15 for Members / $20 for Non-Members Susan Johnston Taylor is the author of the Crystal Kite-awarding STEM poetry book Animals in Surprising Shades: Poems About Earth’s Colorful Creatures. She's written over a dozen books for the educational market, and her writing also appears in magazines and poetry anthologies for kids and adults.
Canva is a powerful tool that anyone can use to create book trailers, Instagram reels, slide presentations, social media headers, and other graphics. With the free desktop version of Canva, this webinar will cover the basics of setting up a project, adding images, text, and animation, changing colors, fonts, and other effects, downloading or sharing your project, and more.
Monday, Aug 18 at 7 PM EST / Zoom
45 Minute Presentation / 15 Minute Q&A
$15 for Members / $20 for Non-Members
About Susan Johnston Taylor
Susan Johnston Taylor is the author of the Crystal Kite-awarding STEM poetry book Animals in Surprising Shades: Poems About Earth’s Colorful Creatures. She's written over a dozen books for the educational market, and her writing also appears in Highlights for Children, Scout Life, and several poetry anthologies for kids and adults. Her next picture book poetry collection, If Pets Wrote Poems, unleashes with Gnome Road Publishing in spring 2026. Outside of writing, she’s a professional singer/actor who performs with the Paramount Story Wranglers bringing third-graders stories to life onstage through original sketches and songs. She lives in Austin, Texas with her husband and their rescue dog Sadie. Learn more at staylorwrites.com.