Awards
- Hartshorne Award for 1957. Wisconsin Poetry Magazine.
- Leonora Speyer Memorial Award 1961, for "New England Vignette". The Poetry Society of America.
- International Clark Ashton Smith Poetry Award 1978, (first recipient) awarded for Life Achievement. (An award created by Frederick J. Mayer and awarded yearly at the Fantasy Faire Convention in Southern California until the passing of co-founder William "Bill" Crawford in 1985).
- At the Eighth World Fantasy Convention 1982, held in Brennan's home town of New Haven, CT, Brennan was awarded a Special Convention Award for Life Achievement, along with artist/illustrator, Roy Krenkel. The winner of the Life Achievement Award for 1982 went to Italo Calvino.
- Brennan received numerous awards in poetry from various literary journals including Kaleidograph, and others.
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