diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 661da20..a5a5997 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 * [Implement metrics/tracing on top of OpenTelemetry](https://github.com/anna-money/asyncpg-listen/pull/199)
 * [Support python 3.12 and end support of 3.8](https://github.com/anna-money/asyncpg-listen/pull/211)
+* [Eagerly start notification processing with Python 3.12+](https://github.com/anna-money/asyncpg-listen/pull/212)
 
 
 ## v0.0.6 (2022-11-02)
diff --git a/asyncpg_listen/listener.py b/asyncpg_listen/listener.py
index 9b4d527..c1dfbe0 100644
--- a/asyncpg_listen/listener.py
+++ b/asyncpg_listen/listener.py
@@ -140,12 +140,15 @@ async def _process_notifications(
             if notification is None:
                 continue
 
-            # to have independent async context per run
-            # to protect from misuse of contextvars
             try:
-                await asyncio.create_task(
-                    self._process_notification(handler, notification), name=f"{__package__}.{channel}"
-                )
+                # to have independent async context per run
+                # to protect from misuse of contextvars
+                coro = self._process_notification(handler, notification)
+                if sys.version_info >= (3, 12):
+                    task = asyncio.Task(coro, eager_start=True, name=f"{__package__}.{channel}")
+                else:
+                    task = asyncio.create_task(coro, name=f"{__package__}.{channel}")
+                await task
             except Exception:
                 logger.exception("Failed to handle %s", notification)