1/ Editor
2/ Author - can post at will, articles and comments will appear immediately
3/ Contributor - can submit articles for consideration. Presently the Editor will publish on a weekly schedule to bring out a new issue every Monday - can leave comments.
4/ Subscriber - someone who has registered with the site can submit comments
5/ Guest - some who visits the site - free to read the site
Guests: To become a subscriber - simply register your email address on the site. Subscribers may maintain their profile and be listed on the profiles page by Nickname. Subscribers may receive emails from the site and by subscribing you grant us the right to email you (until you unsubscribe).
Subscribers: To become a Contributor, send by email a single work to the Editor with “AucklandPoetry: Submission” in the subject line and the statement “Okay to publish on AucklandPoetry.com” following your copyright statement.
If we like your work, you may be invited to be a Contributor. If not, we may ask you to have another go.Contributors: You must have several good poems published by the Editor to raise your rank from Contributor.
When you submit your work put your name in the Title and place your title in bold inside the body text of your poem. Your works will added to our editing queue. An Editor may publish it when it seems right. Contributors who have published at least 7 poems that have attracted comments, may be given Author status.
Authors: You are trusted to have spell checked or taken care to edit your work as you want others to see it. It is often a good idea to access the site as a guest in a secondary browser (we recommend Opera.com for this) that is not logged in so you can see how the rest of the world views your work before you consider it published. All works should carry your copyright notice. To create the c in a circle, use the HTML entity code © - that is entered ampersand then copy followed by a semi-colon.
