Call for Submissions
Sexual Salvation:
Stories about Purity Culture an anthology
About the Project:
Sexual Salvation will consist of stories about surviving purity culture. We’ll be spotlighting stories of folks who once tried to remain sexually “pure” (those who, in some ways, attempted to achieve salvation by way of such “purity”). Some stories might include how authors later found ways to untangle such harmful beliefs and form an embodied, shame-free sexuality—a “sexual salvation”. Most others will focus exclusively on their damaging experience within purity culture.
Deadline: February 15, 2027
A note on compensation: All contributors will receive one copy of the anthology upon publication. This project will go out on submission to publishers in early 2027—additional compensation may be provided, depending on the publisher secured. This project is being represented by our literary agent.
Please review the submission instructions doc before making a submission.
To make your submission click here or click the link at the top of this page.
If you have any questions email: briannarbell@gmail.com AND anthology.submission2026@gmail.com
About the Editors:
Brianna Bell
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Lucas Wilson
Brianna Bell (she/her) is an investigative journalist, essayist, and author of the forthcoming God Lover: Reckoning with Purity Culture, High-Control Religion, and Bad Men (Dundurn Press). Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Globe & Mail, The Guardian, BBC, Al Jazeera, and more.
Dr. Lucas Wilson (he/him) is a Research Associate at York University, a Fellow through the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism, and the editor of Shame-Sex Attraction: Survivors’ Stories of Conversion Therapy (JKP) and Don’t Ask, Tell All: Stories of Christian Colleges’Anti-LGBTQ+ Regimes (University of Georgia Press).