Hi! I'm new at using this website and hoped that someone could help me with a few questions that I have:
Q1: Is a writer's work safe here? What prevents other people from taking your work and publishing it as their own? Or stealing your ideas to present them as their own?
Q2: When entering the competitions, does it matter if you don't live in an english speaking country, even if you have citizenship in a country that is part of the Commonwealth?
I can answer the first question but not the second.
I'm pretty sure your work is safe. No one on here is going to steal your work. We're all on this site because we love writing... so we all have our own writing and our own ideas. Technically nothing is stopping people from stealing it but it's very unlikely that anyone would!! :-)
Sorry I can't answer your other question.
By the way - Welcome!