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Thanks to an onslaught of comment spam, which until now I've been dealing with manually, I've decided to turn on Blogger's "word verification" to put a stop to it. It's annoying because it adds an extra step to commenting here, but it's the best solution right now. If a better way of dealing with the spam problem comes along, I'll switch it off. For now though, it's been added to the Commenting at The Millions primer (if anyone needs a refresher.)

Thanks for all the interest! This listing is now closed. The Millions back office is looking for some help. With the site growing, we've decided that we could use a book-loving young person to give us a hand with various editing and production tasks. In return for a very modest time commitment, our intern will also join a great group of creative thinkers and have the opportunity to get their work edited by the working writers among us and potentially see their pieces published at The Millions. As is the case with our crew of regulars, our intern will be compensated for the pieces he or she publishes on the site. Here's what we're looking for: A voracious reader - Our ideal candidate will be well-read and have a solid knowledge of contemporary fiction. A copy editing ninja - Our intern is going to have the opportunity to copy edit all our stuff, so whoever signs on needs to be good at it. A blogger - Ideally, our intern will have tried blogging in the past and will be familiar and comfortable with the medium. Experience with Wordpress is a huge bonus. The "Always-on" type - We're going to need to be able to email our intern with editing tasks that need to be completed on (reasonably) short notice. If you only check email twice a week, this isn't going to work. Furthermore, if you are adept at finding cool literary stuff online on a daily basis, all the better. More details: This isn't going to be anything close to a full-time gig. We're thinking 5-10 hours a week realistically, plus as much time as you want to spend writing for us. We think the internship would be a great fit for a college or grad student, but are certainly open to hearing from non-students whose schedules will allow them to do this. We're looking for a one-year commitment, though we can be flexible on the duration. Cash money: Long-form pieces written by the intern for the site and approved for publication will be compensated using the same system we use to compensate our regular writers. And there will most probably be some free books here and there. Why should you do this? The Millions is read by upwards of 20,000 people every week. Our readership is a laundry list of influential, brilliant folks in the publishing and media industries as well as in academia, not to mention the most engaged, avid readers of literary work that you'll find anywhere. Aside from learning about how a site like The Millions operates, you'll have an opportunity to write for all these people. Where do I sign up? If you are interested in The Millions internship, please send an email to [email protected] telling us about yourself and any blogging and copy editing experience you have as well as up to three samples of original writing you've done that you think would be a good fit for The Millions. (These can be attachments or links to elsewhere online.) We look forward to hearing from you!