diff --git a/changelog/10114.trivial.rst b/changelog/10114.trivial.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f960f2b63d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/10114.trivial.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Dropped the dependency to `atomicwrites <https://github.com/untitaker/python-atomicwrites>`__ library.
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index c4f5bd9d29f..3545a9503a8 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ install_requires =
     packaging
     pluggy>=0.12,<2.0
     py>=1.8.2
-    atomicwrites>=1.0;sys_platform=="win32"
     colorama;sys_platform=="win32"
     importlib-metadata>=0.12;python_version<"3.8"
     tomli>=1.0.0;python_version<"3.11"
diff --git a/src/_pytest/assertion/rewrite.py b/src/_pytest/assertion/rewrite.py
index 9d0b431b4a7..330b6b34d30 100644
--- a/src/_pytest/assertion/rewrite.py
+++ b/src/_pytest/assertion/rewrite.py
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ def _write_pyc_fp(
 
 
 if sys.platform == "win32":
-    from atomicwrites import atomic_write
+    from _pytest.atomic_writes import atomic_write
 
     def _write_pyc(
         state: "AssertionState",