Creative writing has an oversupply and underdemand problem.
Most novels are self published. Most don't even sell three figures. For short fiction, there are hundreds of literary magazines, and more appearing every day, but only a minority pay anything at all. In a niche such as poetry, the minority becomes vanishingly small.
MFAs churn out tens of thousands of credible writers every year, plus all the retirees (hai), midlife crises, career breakers, redundancy moneys, job hunters, stay-at-home parents, etc.
So by and large the industry doesn't deal with it. To a first order approximation, creative writing is a leisure pursuit.
Most novels are self published. Most don't even sell three figures. For short fiction, there are hundreds of literary magazines, and more appearing every day, but only a minority pay anything at all. In a niche such as poetry, the minority becomes vanishingly small.
MFAs churn out tens of thousands of credible writers every year, plus all the retirees (hai), midlife crises, career breakers, redundancy moneys, job hunters, stay-at-home parents, etc.
So by and large the industry doesn't deal with it. To a first order approximation, creative writing is a leisure pursuit.