diff --git a/.github/workflows/pypi-release.yml b/.github/workflows/pypi-release.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ed4af27
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/pypi-release.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+name: Publish package to PyPi
+
+on:
+  release:
+    types: [published]
+
+jobs:
+
+  push:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+      - name: setup python
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        with:
+          python-version: 3.8
+
+      - name: Install pip
+        run: pip install pip
+
+      - name: Install Dependencies
+        run: pip install setuptools wheel
+
+      - name: Build package
+        run: python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
+
+      - name: Publish to PyPi
+        uses: pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish@master
+        with:
+          user: __token__
+          password: ${{ secrets.PYPI_UPLOAD_TOKEN }}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 16cd01f..2beb88f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,9 @@
 .DS_STORE
 *.swp
+
+# Packages
+*.egg
+*.egg-info
+dist
+build
+eggs
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index a1f287b..e14bf6a 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -46,8 +46,6 @@ def is_requirement(line):
     return line and not line.startswith(('-r', '#', '-e', 'git+', '-c'))
 
 
-VERSION = get_version('warnings_report', '__init__.py')
-
 if sys.argv[-1] == 'tag':
     print("Tagging the version on github:")
     os.system(u"git tag -a %s -m 'version %s'" % (VERSION, VERSION))
@@ -68,7 +66,7 @@ def is_requirement(line):
     license='AGPL',
     url='https://github.com/edx/pytest-warnings-report',
     description='A pytest plugin for generating warnings reports.',
-    long_description=read('README.rst'),
+    long_description=README,
     py_modules=['pytest_warnings_report'],
     python_requires='>=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*',
     include_package_data=True,