rtf or doc import

Hello everyone. I run a small bi-weekly and use WP as a CMS. This means that every other week I have to upload dozens of texts at a time. It’s both time-consuming and tedious: open the file in text editor, copy, paste, add bolding and such, save with a different date, open another text…

My question is: is there a way to batch publish my rtf files, or at least import them straight to WP? I was looking for some plugin to do that, but could not find one. Ideally, the tool would allow me to select a number of files and some properties for all of them (like common date, publisher and category), doing the rest (applying formatting and so on) would be easy. Alternatively a simple one-by-one solution would be much of a help as well.

BTW, all my rtf files are structured in the very same way, which could help. The file naming scheme I use is “<WP category> – <Title of a post> – <number of words>.rtf”, and the first line always is “<WP category> | <Title of a post>”. That should help I guess.

Any ideas?