(From Johnny B.) Someone paid twenty five bucks to put up this ad on Craigslist. . . I can’t tell if it is for real, but it is an stupid joke for $25.

Five writers seek up to three interns.

Five writers and editors that live in Brooklyn, Houston, Athens, Ohio, and Pennsylvania and have a combined ouvre of about twenty published books, five online literary magazines, and publication in over fifty magazines including Dazed and Confused, Punk Planet, Nerve, Noon, the Mississippi Review, the Cincinnati Review, Other Voices, Fourteen Hills, Gult Coast, American Arts & Letters, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, the Believer, New York Magazine, Time Out Chicago, L Magazine, Publisher’s Weekly, Largeheartedboy.com, and many others are interested in acquiring up to three interns.

Our books have been blurbed by Miranda July, Harvey Pekar, Matthew Rohrer, Todd Hasak-Lowy, Amy Fusselman, Brian Morton, and others.

One job for one intern will be to reject every submission that one of our online magazines receives. This magazine is well-known, gets about 20,000 page views a month, and has published poetry by a winner of the National Poetry Series, as chosen by Mary Oliver. The intern with this job will be given “free-rein” to write whatever they want in their rejection. They will sign their rejections “intern” or with their name. Reading the submissions is not required or encouraged, though it is also not not encouraged.

Interns will be able to choose exactly what to put on their resume. “Personal assistant to _____,” “Associate editor of ____,” “Secretary of State of ____,” etc. Committment is on a month-by-month basis. We will endorse whatever you put on your resume as long as you have worked dilligently for us for at least one month. Tasks will take approximately 1-2 hours a day. Maybe 3 times a week.

Other jobs will be adding facebook friends for us, doing things on myspace, going into bookstores and putting flyers into books, and other things we will think of later. We take suggestions. After one month if you are doing a good job we will begin to pay you. If any of us becomes very rich we will pay you more. Almost all communication will be through email and gmail chat.

To apply please email us your resume, and type about 300 words about why you want to work for us. We want an intelligent, sarcastic, detached person who will not be afraid to talk shit about us or have us talk shit about them. Shit-talking will be widespread and oftentimes everyone will be confused who is being shit-talked, but the shit-talking will always be kindhearted. We also prefer interns who are considerate, timely, and conscious of where they spend their money, what they support, and whether or not their shit-talking is kindhearted or not.

Please email applications in the body of the email to to …….@…..com.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Five writers and editors.