diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -47,6 +47,11 @@
   hooks:
   - id: black
 
+- repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/isort
+  rev: 5.5.2
+  hooks:
+  - id: isort
+
 # unfortunately, we are far from being able to enable this...
 # - repo: https://github.com/PyCQA/pydocstyle.git
 #   rev: 4.0.0
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,2 +1,14 @@
 [tool.black]
 target-version = ['py37']
+
+[tool.isort]
+multi_line_output = 3
+include_trailing_comma = true
+force_grid_wrap = 0
+use_parentheses = true
+ensure_newline_before_comments = true
+line_length = 88
+known_django = 'django,rest_framework'
+sections = 'FUTURE,STDLIB,THIRDPARTY,DJANGO,FIRSTPARTY,LOCALFOLDER'
+force_sort_within_sections = true
+