The Vagabond Trust is a group of Canadian writers who workshop fiction, poetry, plays and fiction. The Trust began with a group of writers in Fredericton, New Brunswick in the Fall of 2007. The Toronto chapter of the Trust started up in the Fall of 2008. The Vagabond Trust in Toronto curates a successful monthly reading series, and hosts a writers’ workshop.

The Vagabond Trust Writer's Workshop is a collective of emerging and mid-career, professional writers whose writing practices include prose, poetry, theatre, writing for film and television, graphic novels, comics and interdisciplinary writing.

The Vagabond Trust Reading series presents writers and artists with diversity in mind – each of the readings so far has featured a lineup of writers whose work reflects the variety of genres, cultures, gender and artistic practices that is the fabric of our City. We have held readings at Gallery 1313, This Ain't the Rosedale Library and Lola's Commissary. True to our migrant spirit, we rotate our reading locations around the City to encourage diversity in our audience.

Writers need community just as much as any other artist. The stereotype built up around the practice of writing is that it happens in isolation – the lone writer, hunched over her MacBook, bottomless cup of coffee by her side, locked down with her manuscript in a cramped room or a cabin in the woods. This may be how things start, and how things end, but there is a great deal of interchange that is necessary to create innovative work of professional calibre.

The Vagabond Trust is a community movement, an exercise in generating opportunities for both writers to meet and work with other writers; for other artistic communities to work with writers; for writers to learn about their craft through the lens of other arts practices; and for the city at large to interface with writers, and with artists engaged in any kind of collaboration with the literary arts. Interdisciplinary collaboration and networking between artistic communities is a major focus of our organization.