TODAY is your last chance to cast your vote in our Sunday National Yessay competition!

You can find all 20 of our shortlisted essays on why Scotland should be independent – aimed at undecided voters – in the dedicated section of our website at thenational.scot/community/yessays.

Digital subscribers can cast their vote through a form you’ll find linked in each article, and print subscribers can get in touch to do the same by sending an email to stewart.ward@thenational.scot.

If you’re unable to access the essays for some reason on our website, again, just contact that email. That inbox is also open to ideas for future competitions that you think we could run to help the Yes movement.

We’ve already had some great suggestions coming in, and once we’ve wrapped this one up, we’re excited to get to work on more.

Our judges are still hard at working deliberating on the 20 shortlisted Yessays.

The trio faced with the tough task are Sunday National editor Roxanne Sorooshian, National columnist, author and broadcaster Lesley Riddoch and University of Glasgow professor of Scottish literature Alan Riach.

National editor Callum Baird said: “While I’m not on the judging panel for this particular contest, I’ve been casting my eye over some of the entries.

“On our letters pages and at roadshows I’ve seen our readers taking on the big topics of independence for years now – but they’ve transitioned those to the essay format so excellently.

“I hope everyone’s who is able to cast a vote can do so today. We want our readers to be involved in the process.”

As mentioned previously, we also have plans to publish more of the entries – as we think there were many more that’d be of use and that are well worth reading.

And good luck to our entrants, once again!