The Sunday Times has launched a new award for unpublished writers to find “the next great critic” in memory of its food writer AA Gill, who died of cancer aged 62 in 2016.

The AA Gill Award for Emerging Food Critics, launched in association with the Society of Editors, is calling for “bold, insightful and witty” entries which must be food related, whether restaurants, travel or television, but “should be more than just a critique of the contents of a plate”.

The idea came from Gill’s daughter Flora, who will judge the award alongside Jeremy Clarkson, Sunday Times restaurant critic Marina O’Loughlin and food editor Lisa Markwell, Society of Editors executive director Ian Murray, and restaurateur Jeremy King.