"pressure to bear on local publishers to print our songs and stories, or if not come up with some sort of communal way of doing so."

The gift of the Internet is that we don't have to wait for publishers to be persuaded, We can do it for ourselves, individually on our own websites, - and collectively here. Any songs and stories we get we can bring here, and share them. Maybe there's a role for a new Mudcat Resource for that kind of thing.