1. A method for execution by a computing device of a dispersed storage network (DSN) to resolve conflicts arising from substantially concurrent write requests regarding a data object, the method comprises: issuing a write request for a dispersed storage error encoded version of the data object to storage units of the DSN; receiving, in response to the write request, write responses from at least some of the storage units, wherein each of the write responses includes either: a lock indication; or a non-lock indication and conflict information; determining whether at least a write threshold number of write responses have been received that include the lock indication; and when less than the at least a write threshold number of write responses have been received that include the lock indication: processing the conflict information to identify one or more other write requests of the substantially concurrent write requests that have a higher priority than the write request; and establishing a write request retry time frame based on the one or more other write requests that have the higher priority.