Sample bag from a festival with an apostrophe, set against the backdrop of my bass guitar
Those for:
Sydney Writers’ Festival
Wyong Writers’ Festival
Adelaide Writers’ Week
Emerging Writers’ Festival
Mildura Writers’ Festival
NT Writers’ Festival
Those against:
Melbourne Writers Festival
Brisbane Writers Festival
Wollongong Writers Festival
Newcastle Writers Festival
Perth Writers Week
Canberra Writers Festival
Byron Writers Festival
Bendigo Writers Festival
Tasmanian Writers and Readers Festival
wake up and smell the humans 
I think it looks a bit fussy and OTT having the apostrophe in there for the plural, what do you think?
After lots of thinking and reflection on some comments here and on Facebook. I vote no apostrophe. It’s not as though writers own the festival.
Nice one!
Could it have something to do with the wish or hope for a plurality of writers against a specific writers’ festival?….just askin’…
Interesting question. Who knows what the hell these phenomenon are all about? Apart from money that is.
Doesn’t strike me as a possessive. So, no apostrophe needed.
Yeah, no ownership here!
I’m on Team Apostrophe for this one… Nice bass btw!
Team apostrophe appears to be a minority, nothing wrong with that!
We leave out more and more, and, to some extent it happens because of laziness and indisposition towards thinking. I believe, all perfectionists voted for apostrophe.
Microsoft Word doesn’t like it when I use apostrophes. It doesn’t like it when I don’t. I can’t win. I like apostrophes – as long as they are used properly. Maybe life would be easier without them. Their use is certainly in decline. Pity: I think they raise us above the cave man. Lot of cave men where I work. Wouldn’t know an apostrophe if it kicked them in the bollocks. Is this a lament? I suspect so.
SAVE THE APOSTROPHE!