Vehicles for art, perhaps, and writing (5)
I believe the answer is:
trams
'vehicles' is the definition.
(tram is a kind of vehicle)
'art perhaps and writing' is the wordplay.
'perhaps' indicates an anagram.
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'writing' becomes 'ms' (abbreviation for manuscript).
'art' is an anagram of 'tra'.
'tra'+'ms'='TRAMS'
'for' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for trams that I've seen before include "silk yarns" , "old vehicles" , "Not seen in London" , "People movers" , "public transport" .)