diff --git a/wagtail/admin/forms/workflows.py b/wagtail/admin/forms/workflows.py
index 386878b0dd..4a5c466aed 100644
--- a/wagtail/admin/forms/workflows.py
+++ b/wagtail/admin/forms/workflows.py
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 from django import forms
 from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured, ValidationError
 from django.utils.functional import cached_property
-from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _
-from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as __
+from django.utils.translation import gettext as _
+from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as __
 
 from wagtail.admin import widgets
 from wagtail.admin.edit_handlers import FieldPanel, InlinePanel, ObjectList
diff --git a/wagtail/admin/views/workflows.py b/wagtail/admin/views/workflows.py
index 5309efbf69..8327bce556 100644
--- a/wagtail/admin/views/workflows.py
+++ b/wagtail/admin/views/workflows.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ from django.template.response import TemplateResponse
 from django.urls import reverse
 from django.utils.functional import cached_property
 from django.utils.http import is_safe_url
-from django.utils.translation import ugettext_lazy as _
+from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
 from django.utils.translation import ngettext
 from django.views.decorators.http import require_POST