diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 1b3cdcc..a485944 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -12,4 +12,4 @@ install:
 
 script:
   # need to add coverage support
-  - pytest -vv xeger/tests
+  - pytest -vv tests
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dbde32b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=61.2", "wheel", "setuptools_scm[toml]>=3.4.3"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[project]
+name = "xeger"
+authors = [{name = "Colm O'Connor", email = "colm.oconnor.github@gmail.com"}]
+license = {text = "BSD"}
+description = "A library for generating random strings from a valid regular expression."
+keywords = [
+    "regular",
+    "expressions",
+    "regexp",
+    "testing",
+    "random",
+    "generator",
+]
+readme = "README.rst"
+classifiers = [
+    "Development Status :: 3 - Alpha",
+    "Intended Audience :: Developers",
+    "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
+    "Topic :: Software Development :: Build Tools",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 2",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.1",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.2",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6",
+]
+urls = {Homepage = "https://github.com/crdoconnor/xeger"}
+dynamic = ["version"]
+
+[tool.setuptools]
+zip-safe = false
+include-package-data = false
+
+[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
+exclude = ["docs"] # tests*
+namespaces = false
+
+[tool.setuptools_scm]
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
deleted file mode 100644
index 700c19b..0000000
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-[easy_install]
-
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
deleted file mode 100644
index f040d41..0000000
--- a/setup.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-import os, sys, re, codecs
-from setuptools import setup, find_packages
-
-def read(*parts):
-    # intentionally *not* adding an encoding option to open
-    # see here: https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/issues/201#issuecomment-3145690
-    return codecs.open(os.path.join(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)), *parts), 'r').read()
-
-long_description = read('README.rst')
-
-setup(name="xeger",
-      version="0.3.4",
-      url="https://github.com/crdoconnor/xeger",
-      description="A library for generating random strings from a valid regular expression.",
-      long_description=long_description,
-      classifiers=[
-          'Development Status :: 3 - Alpha',
-          'Intended Audience :: Developers',
-          'License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License',
-          'Topic :: Software Development :: Build Tools',
-          'Programming Language :: Python :: 2',
-          'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.6',
-          'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
-          'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
-          'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.1',
-          'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.2',
-          'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3',
-          'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4',
-          'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5',
-          'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.6',
-      ],
-      keywords='regular expressions regexp testing random generator',
-      author='Colm O\'Connor',
-      author_email='colm.oconnor.github@gmail.com',
-      license='BSD',
-      install_requires=[],
-      packages=find_packages(exclude=["docs", "tests*"]),
-      zip_safe=False,
-      test_suite='xeger.tests.suite',
-)
diff --git a/xeger/tests/__init__.py b/tests/__init__.py
similarity index 100%
rename from xeger/tests/__init__.py
rename to tests/__init__.py
diff --git a/xeger/tests/test_xeger.py b/tests/test_xeger.py
similarity index 100%
rename from xeger/tests/test_xeger.py
rename to tests/test_xeger.py