[2] When discovered by teachers, the text was passed over to a literary agent, who quickly had Walters signed to a publishing company with a five-figure book deal even before she had left school.
Her book The Best Things in Life was published in 1998 and explored the lives of young Black women struggling to balance friendship, work and relationships.
is a collection of poems, short stories and plays about black experience in West London, born out of her time as the Writer in Residence for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
Walters also performs her poetry, and she has written plays, with her works including Too Hot to Handle, Cold World, Caribbean Kitchen, Double Take, Changes and Michael X, produced by various English theater companies.
[4] Her articles have been published in The Guardian, New Statesman, The Voice and other outlets, including Pride Magazine, for which she writes a monthly column on topical issues for black women.