There is no email alert by default. So just check the admin area every so and at some point we'll publish an optional plugin for alerting specific users for new content.
As for editing, if you tweak the frontend editing permissions properly, your user can still have edit rights even after the item is published (e.g. like we do on getk2.org).
Fotis / JoomlaWorks Support Team
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