Submitting work to us, is a declaration that the work is your own. We cannot and will not be held responsible for plagiarised work.

Copyright remains with the author/artist. We never keep copyright and your work shall remain yours to use as you wish in future publications.

Owing to the occasional adult theme or language of the site and books we produce, and the uncertainty of the royalty scheme, submissions to the People's Poet site must be from over 18's. However, we have a Budding Poet site for those under 18 wishing to submit their work.

By submitting your work to us, you are giving us permission to publish your work online, or in any of our publications. You may of course submit elsewhere but you must always ensure our freedom to print anything you have submitted to us previously. Once something expires from our site, you can assume that we will no longer be needing that work. You may not withdraw your work from that which you have submitted to us. If you have sent your work to us, you have granted permission for us to publish it. We will not re-publish any work in any other publication without your express permission.

Payment will be a free copy of that publication but we do not provide free postage. Please see our relevant project page links for your contributor copy information. Please see the about page for how to pay for anything, including postage. If, however, the sales of the book in question are sufficient to produce a profit, we will share the profit in our royalty scheme at the end of the relevant year's trading. Most of our charity publications do not offer any kind of royalty payment except a free copy of the publication.

Occasionally we may offer collaboration opportunities with other publishers but these will be offered with full explanation of how that project will work for you.

Your work will be PROVISIONALLY accepted by email for the Anthology, if the panel or online visitors like it. It will later go through an editing process with the panel but at least one of your works will be included in the Anthology if you have received at least one provisional acceptance email.

We can no longer afford to cover postage for free books. We have also found that many people have said that they do not wish to receive a free charity book and would rather pay for it. These points have led us to amend the policy on sending out free issues. Free copies are available on request (e-mail/fax/letter) and upon receipt of the appropriate postage. £2 for postage across the UK and Europe, £4 for the rest of the World. Postage costs may be paid in English postage stamps, Sterling cheque - payable to Paula Brown - Paypal, Nochex, Money Order or Euro or Sterling Coins taped between a folded piece of card in an envelope.

We do not accept cheques (Checks) in any other currency but £ sterling.

Free copies may be requested and collected post free at any of our events (if you e-mail/fax/write and let us know that you will be needing one).Our postal address is 26 Uplands Road, Drayton, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 1HS.

Profits are after tax and we are responsible for all expenses. The first year's proceeds will cover the following year's minimum requirements in addition to the current year's expenses. Subsequent years expenses will include a basic wage to staff. A percentage royalty will be made after accounts auditing as follows: 40% us - for the business to purchase equipment and fund further projects - 40% Poetry and Art, 20% Panel and Staff.

All work for our site and books must be previously unpublished in a book elsewhere. Online, magazines and Journals are fine. Our Journals and charity anthologies will occasionally feature the previously published work of an author. We must always be protected by yourself and your permission from liability or responsibility to other publishers. Our charity books often have a different scheme. Most will donate the funds directly to the charity in question but you will always receive a free copy.

If a writer is not contactable, we will advertise their free book online in the hope that someone will be in touch to claim it. We require a contact address, correct e-mail address and name. You may use a pen-name if you wish, as long as we know your name. Writers who remain out of contact at the point of royalty shares will be given three months to claim the funds. After three months the funds will be donated towards printing the next charity book.

Changes to the terms and conditions will be shown online. Please ensure your work is complete and edited at the point of submission. We may have to reject unedited work or post it online as it is. We do not have time for correcting errors. Please attach your files as word documents if possible. If the file is incompatible for any reason with our systems, it may be necessary to ask for a resubmission in the main body of the e-mail.

We aim to keep the site as non-critique as possible. With this in mind, please do not post comments which are offensive, non-constructive or likely to cause site visitors the need for a long lie down. Please be polite and non-demanding towards the staff. At this stage we put most, if not all of our spare time into this site and do not receive a wage.

Once we accept work into one of our publications, we guarantee to print that edition. The edition may be delayed and we may at a later stage appoint a co-editor who may, then decide to edit the book which may result in some of your work being edited out. The Editor's decision is final, but the edition will be printed. We also guarantee to offer a free copy to you if your work appears in the book. We will not ever be able to offer free postage. You must send us postage fees if you wish to have your free copy of the book - currently £2.50 for a book to the UK and Europe, £4.50 to the rest of the World. Postage fees include packaging but do not include a wage for the time spent to arrange the postage. You only pay exactly what it costs us to buy the packaging and the postage. If you have had free issues of your publications - books only..magazines and journals have postage included - and have not sent us your postage fees, please do so immediately.

Submission is free. Members - ie subscribers - may submit as many poems as they wish. We are only able to accept two submissions per month from non-members.. The Editor's decision is final in every eventuality. In the event that the Editor is not the Management, then the Management's decision is final and supersedes that of the Editor. Panellists, Co-Editors and Journal Editors are all individually able to accept or decline work for their own publications.