diff --git a/src/fckit/fckit_yaml_reader/pyproject.toml b/src/fckit/fckit_yaml_reader/pyproject.toml
index 79a9c58..031dada 100644
--- a/src/fckit/fckit_yaml_reader/pyproject.toml
+++ b/src/fckit/fckit_yaml_reader/pyproject.toml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 [project]
 name = "fckit_yaml_reader"
 version = "0.0.1"
-requires-python = ">=3.8"
+requires-python = ">=3.6"
 license = {text = "Apache-2.0"}
 description = "A minimal wrapper for ruamel.yaml to create an API consistent with pyyaml."