Through this connection, Yeh also got the chance to come into contact with important writers from Taipei literary circles, and in 1943-at the height of World War II-he became embroiled in a battle between two major literary magazines over the direction Taiwanese literature should take. Literary Taiwan and Taiwan Literature hurled accusations of "crap realism" and "phony romanticism" at each other.
這個經歷也讓葉石濤有機會接觸當時的台北文壇重要寫手，更於一九四三年二次世界大戰方熾之時，捲入兩大文學雜誌間的路線之爭──「文藝台灣」與「台灣文學」互批對方為「糞寫實主義」與「偽浪漫主義」。